Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

• You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Grief, Past, Thinking

• As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Grief, Dark

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.288, Faber & Faber

• There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Grief, Believe, Track

• The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Real, Grief, Air

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.320, Faber & Faber

• Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Grief, Moving, Thinking

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.198, Faber & Faber

• I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Grief, Character, Writing

  Interview with Crystal Wilkinson, appalachianheritage.net. November 20, 2014.

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