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

Stichwörter: barbara-kingsolver the-poisonwood-bible



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Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?

Barbara Kingsolver

Stichwörter: barbara-kingsolver the-poisonwood-bible novel



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Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

Barbara Kingsolver

Stichwörter: sympathy barbara-kingsolver mothers the-lacuna



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...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Barbara Kingsolver

Stichwörter: lying media barbara-kingsolver the-lacuna



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Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.

Barbara Kingsolver

Stichwörter: barbara-kingsolver communism mccarthyism the-lacuna anticommunism dies-committee



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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Stichwörter: barbara-kingsolver luck the-lacuna lucky-people



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