Author: Barbara Kingsolver

Quotes

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

- Barbara Kingsolver

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

- Barbara Kingsolver

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

- Barbara Kingsolver

What 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.

What 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 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.

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

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

- Barbara Kingsolver

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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