A ten-year-old getting high on pills. Foolish children. This is what we’re meant to say: Look at their choices, leading to a life of ruin. But lives are getting lived right now, this hour, down in the dirty cracks between the toothbrushed nighty-nights and the full grocery carts, where those words don’t pertain.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Storm in a shot glass type of thing. And Angus was the opposite. A whole ocean, dark and chill.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Four demons spawned by four different starving hearts.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The women that loomed large in my life were all getting small.

— Barbara Kingsolver

That’s high school for you, a bevy of people unfit for adult life encounters in any form.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The hopeless wishes that won’t quit stalking you: some perfect words you think you could say to somebody to make them see you, and love you, and stay. Or could say to your mirror, same reason.

— Barbara Kingsolver

People want somebody to kick around, I get that. But why is it us? Why couldn’t it be, I don’t know, a Dakota or something? Why not Florida?

— Barbara Kingsolver

But Coach and I were twelve-step brothers, there’s a code. I’d showed up.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Here, all we can ever be is everything we’ve been.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Good people don’t give up on the ones they love.

— Barbara Kingsolver

A dead parent is a tricky kind of ghost. If you can make it into more like a doll, putting it in the real house and clothes and such that they had, it helps you to picture them as a person instead of just a person-shaped hole in the air.

— Barbara Kingsolver

It hit me pretty hard, how there’s no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting what they want, and you’re on your own.

— Barbara Kingsolver

People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts.

— Barbara Kingsolver

For the kids who wake up hungry in those dark places every day, who’ve lost their families to poverty and pain pills, whose caseworkers keep losing their files, who feel invisible, or wish they were: this book is for you.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Damn April to hell, I could be done with that one. November also. Birthdays, Christmas, dogwoods and redbuds, even football season. Live long enough, and all the things you ever loved can turn around to scorch you blind. the wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Mom had promised to stay clean as long as I was a good enough son to make it worth her while.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Likewise the Charles Dickens one, seriously old guy, dead and a foreigner, but Christ Jesus did he get the picture on kids and orphans getting screwed over and nobody giving a rat’s ass. You’d think he was from around here.

— Barbara Kingsolver

People find more ways to shut up their monsters than a Bible has verses.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I wanted to go home. Which was nowhere, but it’s a feeling you keep having, even after that’s no place anymore.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The eye sees what it cares enough to see.

— Barbara Kingsolver

There’s this thing that happens, let’s say at school where a bunch of guys are in the bathroom, at the urinal, laughing about some dork that made an anus of himself in gym. You’re all basically nice guys, right? You know right from wrong, and would not in a million years be brutal to the poor guy’s face. And then it happens: the dork was in the shitter. He comes out of the stall with this look. He heard everything. And you realize you’re not really that nice of a guy.

— Barbara Kingsolver
More Barbara Kingsolver Quote >>
Privacy Policy   6.50ms  0.71MB