Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“He said half of him was sorry over it, and the other half wasn't, so now he would stay cut in two forever.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead