More from Barbara Kingsolver

  1. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
  2. The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
  3. The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's …
  4. There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other…
  5. Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
  6. Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
  7. Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
  8. What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

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