Barbara Kingsolver Quotes on Truth
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.