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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that. Has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as it produces, and around the profligate wastefulness of the wars and campaigns required to defend such consumption. In recent years we have defined our national interest largely in terms of the oil fields and pipelines we need to procure fuel (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
The important thing isn’t the house. It’s the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
There are days when I am envious of my hens:when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sureas a single daily egg (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
My own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
It takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are.... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you’ve come home you’ll dream of where you were. It’s a kind of jet lag of the consciousness (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Once the rains abated, my father’s garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and moving you to answer them for yourself (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
There are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark! (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It’s the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)