Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
Barbara KingsolverI look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.
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 KingsolverFiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
Barbara Kingsolver...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesnโt suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. A bird raises its brood in the forest and a greenheart tree will only grow from a greenheart seed. He brings drought sometimes followed by torrential rains and if these things arenโt always what I had in mind, they arenโt my punishment either. Theyโre rewards, letโs say for the patience of a seed.
Barbara Kingsolver