Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Choices, Solitude, World

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.353, Faber & Faber

• The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Choices, Survival, Promise

• Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mistake, Past, Sheep

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.308, Faber & Faber

• Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Choices, Arena, Moral

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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