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“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 The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

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

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Source: Animal Dreams

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

Barbara Kingsolver book The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“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 The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

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

Barbara Kingsolver

Source: Homeland and Other Stories

“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.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Prodigal Summer

Source: Prodigal Summer (2000).

“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”

Barbara Kingsolver

“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.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

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

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“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 The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“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.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

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

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

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

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

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

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

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

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Source: Animal Dreams

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

Barbara Kingsolver book Prodigal Summer

Source: Prodigal Summer

“Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life