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“He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.”

Barbara Kingsolver

“I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Prodigal Summer

Source: Prodigal Summer

“Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”

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

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

“… nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.”

Barbara Kingsolver book The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners”

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

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

“This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Prodigal Summer

Source: Prodigal Summer

“Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Source: The Bean Trees