Quotes from Barbara Kingsolver
Scientists are not like other people, sir. We cannot slam our portals. We have to follow evidence where it leads, even if no one likes that place. Even if it suggests that all we have ever believed might be mistaken.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
- Barbara Kingsolver
When the spirit passed through him he groaned, throwing body and soul into his weekly purge. The Amen enema, as I call it. My palindrome for the Reverend.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves.
- Barbara Kingsolver
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
- Barbara Kingsolver
A disappointed-looking Jesus eyed her from the wall...Look, look, her steps called out, here is a red headed sinner on the move.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comic. Not to be confused with real life.
- Barbara Kingsolver
He got born in the historical moment of no more free lunch. Friends will probably count more than money, because wanting too much stuff is going to be toxic.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Without shelter, we stand in daylight.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Finally Cub said, They don't call it global weirding. I know. But I think that's actually the idea. Cub shook his head. Weather is the Lord's business.
- Barbara Kingsolver