The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
Barbara KingsolverIt occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
Barbara KingsolverOur house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
Barbara KingsolverA first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
Barbara Kingsolver