The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.
Barbara KingsolverTags: the-lacuna
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
Barbara KingsolverPeople love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
Barbara KingsolverAs I looked at her there among the pumpkins I was overcome with the color and the intesity of my life. In these moments we are driven to try and hoard happiness by taking photographs, but I know better. The improtant thing was what the colors stood for, the taste of hard apples and the existence of Lena and the exact quality of the sun on the last warm day in October. A photograph would have flattened the scene into a happy moment, whereas what I felt was rapture. The fleeting certainty that I deserved this space I'd been taking up on this earth, and all the air I had breathed.
Barbara KingsolverI'm too fascinated to hide indoors or stay cooped up in our yard. Curiosity killed the cat, I know, but I try to land on my feet.
Barbara KingsolverI vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them
Barbara KingsolverSept 15 1930 at the independence festival of the school of cretins…"At the head of the table by the bowl of pomegranates, Senora Bartolome had put a note: Take only one, our Lord Jesus is watching!.
A second note appeared at the foot of the table beside the sugared almonds: Take all you want, Jesus is looking at the pomegranates.
Tags: humor
A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.
Barbara KingsolverYou know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
Barbara KingsolverPeace and Love, get high and fly with the dove.
Barbara KingsolverTags: the-bean-trees
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