Quote #15
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
More from Barbara Kingsolver
- It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time…
- Life always provides me with better jokes than any I could invent.
- It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
- Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
- It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
- If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
- People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do th…