Quotes from Barbara Kingsolver
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
- Barbara Kingsolver
If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
- Barbara Kingsolver
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
- Barbara Kingsolver
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
- Barbara Kingsolver
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
- Barbara Kingsolver
If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
- Barbara Kingsolver