The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara KingsolverThere is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
Barbara KingsolverWhat we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
Barbara KingsolverI rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
Barbara Kingsolver