Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERLibraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIf you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFor Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMy worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERTo think is not always to see.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIn the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFew people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHe needs to go rub his soul against life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhat you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEROur childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWe agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER