937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

Tig would have fit on that plane just fine. Tig, Art, Takis, these anomalous, scrappy survivors, might be the lucky ones. They ate less and took up less space: the humans of the future.

First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival.

Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.

People ask without wanting to know.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.