Barbara Kingsolver
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  • I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.