Eileen

“At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D. I'd discovered there was something serious, mainly a matter of nerve and perhaps empathy, that stood in my way.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams