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“A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Prodigal Summer

Source: Prodigal Summer

“Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.”

Barbara Kingsolver

“If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.”

Barbara Kingsolver

“Eyes can pierce a skull.”

Barbara Kingsolver book The Lacuna

The Lacuna

“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Emelina, Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)

“I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350. org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Flight Behavior

"Author's note", Flight Behavior, page 599 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).
Flight Behavior (2012)

“Even the most recalcitrant climate scientists agree now, the place is heating up. pretty much every one of the lot. Unless some other outcome is written on the subject line of his paycheck. […] If you were here to get information, Tina, you would not be standing in my laboratory telling me what scientists think.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Flight Behavior

The entomologist Ovid Byron to the journalist Tina Ultner, Flight Behavior, page 505-506 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).
Flight Behavior (2012)

“Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Hallie Noline, Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)

“He was wounded. I suppose some sharp thing in me wanted to sting him, for making me need him now. After he'd once cut me to the edge of what a soul will bear. But that was senseless…. I looked at this grown-up Loyd and tried to make sense of him, seeing clearly that he was too sweet to survive around me. I would go to my grave expecting the weapon in the empty hand.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Codi Noline, Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)

“I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign. I'm not lying. He got stuck up there. About nineteen people congregated during the time it took for Norman Strick to walk up to the Courthouse and blow the whistle for the volunteer fire department. They eventually did come with the ladder and haul him down, and he wasn't dead but lost his hearing and in many other ways was never the same afterward. They said he overfilled the tire.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

The Bean Trees (1988).

“At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Codi Noline, Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)

“Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)

“Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage. He could construct defeat from any available material and live inside it, but for once Dellarobia didn't go there with him. she was going ahead.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Flight Behavior

Flight Behavior, page 576 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).
Flight Behavior (2012)

“There is some kind of juice in our brains that makes us only care about what's in front of us right this minute. Even if we know something different will happen later and we should think about that too. […] If I could teach you one thing, Preston, that's it. Think about what's coming at you later on.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Flight Behavior

Dellarobia Turnbow speaking to her son, Flight Behavior, page 589 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).
Flight Behavior (2012)

“The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)

“A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Flight Behavior

Hester to Dellarobia, her daughter-in-law, Flight Behavior, page 462 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).
Flight Behavior (2012)

“We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Animal Dreams, page 118.
Animal Dreams (1990)