My prior experience with young men was to hear them swear 'Christ almighty in the craphouse!' at any dress with too many buttons.

Barbara Kingsolver

Aller à la citation

---

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

Mots clés change forgiveness

Aller à la citation

---

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

Barbara Kingsolver

Aller à la citation

---

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

Barbara Kingsolver

Aller à la citation

---

I was so depressed I stopped using hair spray for three weeks.

Barbara Kingsolver

Aller à la citation

---

The radio is at the root of the evil, their rule is: No silence, ever. When anything happens, the commentator has to speak without a moment's pause for gathering wisdom. Falsehood and inanity are preferable to silence.

Barbara Kingsolver

Aller à la citation

---

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

Mots clés sadness depression

Aller à la citation

---

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'"

"But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés america diversity kingsolver lacuna

Aller à la citation

---

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés dead prayer

Aller à la citation

---

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Barbara Kingsolver

Aller à la citation

---

« ; premier précédent
Page 16 de 58.
suivant dernier » ;

---

---