{"author":"Barbara Kingsolver","author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver","total_quotes":177,"quotes":[{"text":"I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["discovery","ovid-byron"],"id":4779,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"...When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["barbara-kingsolver","lying","media","the-lacuna"],"id":6668,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["barbara-kingsolver","luck","lucky-people","the-lacuna"],"id":7453,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["hope","kindness","life"],"id":7798,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what there is for us: the long waiting. Now she will wait the rest of the time. It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["death","eternity","light"],"id":8631,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["answers","journalists","knowledge","questions","science","scientists"],"id":11427,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["christmas","heartbreaking","metaphor","santa"],"id":11838,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["life","live","you "],"id":13246,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life... Maybe being perfectly happy is not really the point. Maybe that is only some modern American dream of the point, while the truer measure of humanity is the distance we must travel in our lives, time and again, 'twixt two extremes of passion--joy and grief,' as Shakespeare put it. However much I've lost, what remains to me is that I can still speak to name the things I love. And I can look for safety in giving myself away to the world's least losable things.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["giving","grief","joy","life","love","salvation"],"id":13983,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["memory","complicated","twin "],"id":15826,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":177,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}