Dana

“Certain pitiful souls around here see whiteness as their last asset that hasn't been totaled or repossessed." - Miss Annie, pg. 424”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“I avoided the employee smoking room aka drug-exchange HQ, and found no real down side to the job [in the produce department]. People buying apples and green beans usually have some degree of joy in their hearts. - p. 513”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.”
― Sheldon Vanauken

“I'm going to tell you something, there's country poor, and there's city poor. No desperate [man in the city] ever went out and shot venison if they were hungry. they shot liquor store cashiers. Living in the big woods made of steel and cement, without cash, is a hungrier life than I knew how to think about.”
― Barbara Kingsolver