Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
Barbara KingsolverHow strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
Barbara KingsolverWhat 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.
Barbara KingsolverThe writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
Barbara Kingsolver