937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

It’s terrible to lose somebody,” I said, “I mean, I don’t know firsthand, but I can imagine it must be. But it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.

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.

We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

The Middle East and North Africa are almost out of water. Asia’s underwater. Syria is dystopian, Somalia, Bangladesh, dystopian. Everybody’s getting weather that never happened before. Melting permafrost means we’ve got like, a minute to turn this mess around, or else it’s going to stop us.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

A storm was coming up from the south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God.

My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it’s because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.