Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Skins

Quotes about: Skins

• But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock my the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dream, Baby, Drinking

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

• I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Friday, Growing Up, Kids

• 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.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, House, Skins

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.40, Harper Collins

• 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.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Regret, Skins, Saws

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.412, Faber & Faber

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Magic, Skins, Fiction

• the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Perspective, Empathy, Political

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