Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Balance

Quotes about: Balance

• The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Balance, Injury

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.414, Faber & Faber

• Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Expectations, Balance, Pajamas

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.287, Faber & Faber

• Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Morning, Children, Food

• Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Balance, Trying, Ada

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.414, Faber & Faber

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