Quotes from Barbara Kingsolver
Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
- Barbara Kingsolver
God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
- Barbara Kingsolver
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
- Barbara Kingsolver
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It's what you do that makes your soul.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
- Barbara Kingsolver