Barbara Kingsolver Home Quotations

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.

There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.