You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
Barbara KingsolverThere were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
Barbara KingsolverA woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.
Barbara KingsolverHallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
Barbara Kingsolver