Zitate von Barbara Kingsolver

„There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

Quelle: The Bean Trees

„The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Quelle: Animal Dreams

„Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Quelle: The Poisonwood Bible

„Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Quelle: The Poisonwood Bible

„But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven

Quelle: Pigs in Heaven

„Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Quelle: The Poisonwood Bible

„I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Quelle: The Poisonwood Bible

„God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Quelle: The Poisonwood Bible

„What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Quelle: Animal Dreams

„The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, buch Small Wonder

Quelle: Small Wonder

„I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Quelle: The Poisonwood Bible

„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.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Quelle: The Poisonwood Bible

„There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Quelle: The Poisonwood Bible

„A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

Quelle: The Bean Trees

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

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„It's what you do that makes your soul.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver