18 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
- What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
- I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
- It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
- Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
- Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
- People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
- Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
- Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
- The truth needs so little rehearsal.
- Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
- We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
- Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
- It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
- We are not defined by our circumstances, but by the choices we make in the face of them.
- Hope is the oxygen of change.
- In the darkest times, vision is the best lit lantern.
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