937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

God hates us," I said."Don't blame God for what ants have to do. We all get hungry. Congolese people are not so different from Congolese ants.""They have to swarm over a village and eat other people alive?""When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.

The human person cannot face up to a bad outcome, that's just the deal.

Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.

The longer the sauce cooks, the spicier it gets.

Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Mary and Thatcher had lived in enviable times, when biologists were discovering new species right and left, not watching them go extinct.

The best artifact was the calendar of the ancients, a great carved piece of stone as big as a kitchen, circular, bolted to the wall like a giant clock. In the center was an angry face looking out, as if he'd come through that stone from some other place to have a look at us, and not very pleased about it.