Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow. Barbara Kingsolver More Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver More Quotes From Barbara Kingsolver Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Barbara Kingsolver want people thinking We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. Barbara Kingsolver mammals born animal You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love. Barbara Kingsolver running people This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark. Barbara Kingsolver scent mouths dark If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable. Barbara Kingsolver ifs dresses memorable My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read. Barbara Kingsolver worst-nightmares stuck nightmare Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it. Barbara Kingsolver empty house lying To think is not always to see. Barbara Kingsolver thinking The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know. Barbara Kingsolver pieces important stories Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown Barbara Kingsolver pull-ups shepherds needs Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes Barbara Kingsolver ada balance trying A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do. Barbara Kingsolver terror lifetime thinking We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that. Barbara Kingsolver literature should believe It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promises over the telephone about things I will do at a precise hour next year. Barbara Kingsolver moon feet years If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight. Barbara Kingsolver reading doe world Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children they stand pinched and patient in last year's too-small shoes. Barbara Kingsolver prayer dog children Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it. Barbara Kingsolver staring airplane steps Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't. Barbara Kingsolver environmental feelings ideas The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do. Barbara Kingsolver earth sound men In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune. Barbara Kingsolver passion running long
