Barbara Kingsolver: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.”

“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

“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.”

“If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.”

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.”

“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”

“Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.”

“It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”

“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.”

“Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.”

“No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.”

“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.”

“To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.”

“Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.”

“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”

“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”

“Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.”

“If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.”