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Barbara Kingsolver quotes

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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A pack of coyotes set up a sudden racket near the house, yipping and howling, so close by they sounded like they had us surrounded. When a hunting pack corners a rabbit they go into a blood frenzy, making human-sounding screams. The baby sighed and stirred in his crib. At seven months, he was just the size of a big jackrabbit--the same amount of meat. The back of my scalp and neck prickled. It's an involuntary muscle contraction that causes that, setting the hair follicles on edge; if we had... Barbara Kingsolver
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might..."
It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them. Barbara Kingsolver
You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified. Barbara Kingsolver
...the twins too, they've never cared a hoot what they looked like. They spent so much time staring at each other's faces before they were born they can go the rest of their lives passing up mirrors without a glance. Barbara Kingsolver
Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept as valid for declining certain foods. Generally unacceptable reasons: environmental destruction, energy waste, the poisoning of workers. Acceptable: it's prohibited by a holy text. Set down a platter of country ham in front of a rabbi, an imam, and a Buddhist monk, and you may have just conjured three different visions of damnation. Guests... Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day..."
Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks. Barbara Kingsolver
I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out. Barbara Kingsolver
The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere. Barbara Kingsolver
These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color leaves and fruits and proud naked Indians in a history without shame. Their great city of Tenochtitlan is still here beneath our shoes and history was always just like today full of markets and wanting. Barbara Kingsolver
Do not expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself. Barbara Kingsolver
You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator" Father Fernando Cardenal Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who..."
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Morning always comes."
Morning always comes. Barbara Kingsolver

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