937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Loose lips sink ships.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.