Quotes from Barbara Kingsolver

But people desire fair government. You say that constantly." "They want to believe in heroes, also. And villains. Especially when very frightened. It's less taxing than the truth.

I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.

Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?

And then while we all still waited I understood that the terror of my recurring dream was not about losing just vision, but the whole of myself, whatever that was. 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.

I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

Still no internet with all the ways of saying, Let's us be better than those guys so we can hate on them.

One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.

How strange that a boy could make a kite of his pants, fly them around the world, and somehow arrive back at the house where everything began.

People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative truth but not its twin.

There is nothing boring about the prospect of extinction.

The Lord rideth,' he said, low and threatening, 'upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt.