937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.

In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you loook down on them from a great height.

Every family's its own trip to China.

But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will.

I went on foot because I still had feet to carry me.

Insomnia is different,' I said. It was hard to explain this to people. 'You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That's what it's like in my head. The light stays on.

It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet.

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.