Barbara Kingsolver citáty

„Nesmyslná ctižádost zredukovaná na samu podstatu. Na tom se staví civilizace, a na zásobách vody.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„Lidé se musí bát za každou cenu.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„Žádný reportér hodný svého jména nedopustí, aby se mu do dobrého příběhu vloudila fakta.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„Někdy je síla mateřství větší než zákony přírody.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„Bůh dává peníze bohatým, protože kdyby je neměli, umřeli by hlady.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„Kdokoli se povznese jakkoli vysoko, přitahuje ty, kdo by ho chtěli podříznout pěkně u kořene. To ví každý blázen.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„Při útoku na svou kořist projevují takové nadšení, tito muži od novin.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Zdroj: The Poisonwood Bible

„There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

Zdroj: The Bean Trees

„The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver

„She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Zdroj: Animal Dreams

„Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Zdroj: The Poisonwood Bible

„Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Zdroj: The Poisonwood Bible

„But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven

Zdroj: Pigs in Heaven

„Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Zdroj: The Poisonwood Bible

„I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Zdroj: The Poisonwood Bible

„God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Zdroj: The Poisonwood Bible

„What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Zdroj: Animal Dreams

„The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, kniha Small Wonder

Zdroj: Small Wonder