Barbara Kingsolver Love Quotations

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.

What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

A flower is a plant's way of making love.

A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.