Barbara Kingsolver Quotes Page 2
Best 37 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver – Page 2 of 2
The Poisonwood Bible Quotes
“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
“It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”
“Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.”
“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”
“There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.”
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“War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.”
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