#eve

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#around #behalf #crosses #every #fearsome

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#always #another #brains #carry #else

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#growing #growing up #had #home #just

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#brave #deeper #embrace #every #every time

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#even #few #few people #fountain #hope

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#anything #bluntly #commentary #going #i

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#always #believe #everybody #i #i always

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#been #behave #believe #haven #history

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#everything #man #marriage #meaning #meaning of

I'm worried he's going to ... do something crazy." "He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #morganville-vampires #myrnin #funny