Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMemory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhen moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhen I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWe’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERCodi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFor Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHe needs to go rub his soul against life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERTo think is not always to see.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe talkers are rising above the thinkers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPeople love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER