It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
Barbara KingsolverI know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
Barbara KingsolverThose first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
Barbara Kingsolver