Barbara Kingsolver Skins Quotations

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin...