When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
Barbara KingsolverBe careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
Barbara Kingsolverthe conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Barbara KingsolverInsomniaโs different,โ I said. It was hard to explain this to people. โYou know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. Thatโs what itโs like in my head. The light stays on.
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