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Barbara Kingsolver - From the Artists category:
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Books category:
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Change category:
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Competition category:
_Prodigal Summer...
If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Depression category:
- The Bean Trees...
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Desire category:
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Dreams category:
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Friendship category:
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Gratitude category:
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Hope category:
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Importance category:
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Journey category:
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Knowledge category:
I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Life category:
If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Love category:
Love weighs nothing. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Memory category:
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Memory category:
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Mistakes category:
But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Morality category:
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Politics category:
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Power category:
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Questions category:
What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods? (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Renewal category:
Morning always comes. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Sadness category:
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Searching category:
It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Sight category:
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. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Solitude category:
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. 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)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Thought category:
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Truth category:
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Truth category:
The truth needs so little rehearsal. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Understanding category:
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Barbara Kingsolver - From the Writing category:
Write a non-fiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your every fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true. (Barbara Kingsolver)
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