Quotes from Barbara Kingsolver

At the start of the service they did that song about Amazing God, and I felt exactly the opposite: I once could see but now I'm blind, was found but now I'm

If fight or flight is the choice, it's way easier to fly.

She had already grabbed him under his soggy armpits and was struggling him up the bank toward the flat ground of her front orchard. He had never felt her touch or her grip before and was shocked by this little woman's strength. He tried to help with his useless legs, but he felt as if he were participating in the sport of alligator wrestling and knew, with a sinking heart, that he was the alligator.

already with needles inside. "Tig just

These sound like plots between men but they are betrayals, by men, of children.

admired their own steadfast lives. Right up to the day when hope in all its versions went out of stock

Every kind of weather is intensified by warming.

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.

But this is just one place. I'm afraid I have seen a world.

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.

People count too long on the oblivion of children.

Without shelter, we stand in daylight." "Without shelter, we feel ourselves likely to die.

We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

Little trees alongside of the trail were covered with brushy yellow flowers. Witch hazel, that blooms in winter. Mrs. Peggot used to make a salve of that and put it on our scrapes.

They were always on the side of the money-earning people, and down on the land people, due to various factors Tommy mentioned, monetize this, international banking that. The main one I could understand was that money-earning ones pay taxes.

We are the balance of our damage and our transgressions.

He assumed it was normal in a new marriage to feel one has joined forces with a stranger.

I was only just now starting to exist.

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.

Every Man has the Right to make a Kite from his Pants.

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