Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
Barbara KingsolverEvery life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
Barbara KingsolverBe careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
Barbara KingsolverA mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
Barbara KingsolverWe aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.
Barbara Kingsolver