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“He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown”

Barbara Kingsolver book The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”

Barbara Kingsolver book The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“This Forest eats itself and lives forever.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“One of the very first things I figured out about life… is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.”

Barbara Kingsolver

“Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)
Variant: 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. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Source: The Bean Trees

“Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?”

Barbara Kingsolver book Flight Behavior

Source: Flight Behavior

“The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like, and have that be all right.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Source: Animal Dreams

“What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.”

Barbara Kingsolver book High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible