Quotes from Barbara Kingsolver

If God speaks for the man who keeps quiet, then Violet Brown may be His instrument.

No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.

The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests.

That is so. Science directs us to study our maker's creation, but his thoughts on its purpose are only his to reveal.

You must understand the language of your enemy.

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always the chance you'll want to use it later.

Writing, which was both painful and palliative for me, turned out to be my own way of giving blood in a crisis. I can only hope this unit of words will have a longer shelf life than the forty-two days of a unit of blood, as this critical time blends seamlessly into the next one.

The loudest sound on the earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.

Most families would sooner forgive you for going to prison than for moving out of Lee County.

If I got to make just one law, it would be that the men who make the decisions to drop bombs would first, every time, have to spend one whole day taking care of a baby. We were not made to do this killing thing. I swear. Back up. It's a big mistake.