"I could see that the whole idea and business of Childhood was nothing guaranteed. It seemed to me, in fact, like something more or less invented by white people and stuck onto the front end of grown-up life like a frill on a dress." -Barbara Kingsolver

"I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze." -Barbara Kingsolver

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

"Because I could not stop for death - He kindly stopped for me." -Barbara Kingsolver

"Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed. A lightning that cannot strike twice, our lesson learned in the hateful speed of light. A bite at light at Ruth a truth a sky-blue presentiment and oh how dear we are to ourselves when it comes, it comes, that long, long shadow in the grass." -Barbara Kingsolver

"Living, as a general enterprise, seems unkind beyond belief." -Barbara Kingsolver

"My mother's sanest position is to wear only the necessary parts of the outfit and leave off the rest. Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity." -Barbara Kingsolver

"Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history." -Barbara Kingsolver

Be good to each other, 

-Nathan

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