Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
Barbara KingsolverTags: parenting
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 KingsolverAll that hurry can blur the truth that life is a zero-sum equation. Every minute I save will get used on something else, possibly no more sublime than staring at the newel post trying to remember what I just ran upstairs for.
Barbara KingsolverTags: time
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
Barbara KingsolverTags: human-natre
It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.
Barbara KingsolverShe has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.
Barbara KingsolverTags: motherhood
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 KingsolverThis came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.
Barbara KingsolverI learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
Barbara KingsolverTags: reading books writing writers
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, trowing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up.
Barbara KingsolverTags: reading books literature
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