Partita Quotes

“That’s bodies for you”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“If I had a painful confession to make, it was that I’d made so much of the idea I wasn’t whole because somebody broke me. Without crediting what a person might make from putting the pieces back together.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“I should be able to remember, now, what kindnesses we showed each other in those last hours when I still thought our perfectly good life would go on being perfectly good. To my shame, I can’t. It was snuffed out that quickly.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“could still feel the satisfaction of not telling him”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“Where would you be”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“The sour-milk nurse was punishing me for a failure of maternal love. I knew that crime by heart”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“this bright dangerous stream runs in families”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“When the mind drills down into the dark center”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“How can he still be alive in the atoms of my body?”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“Where was the goodness in our lives”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“myself”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“But sanity is hard to pin down where love is
concerned, a concoction made of equal parts reality, hope, trust, and delusion.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“A child can’t hate her mother without putting the load-bearing walls of the known world at risk. I settled for hating her shoes.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“Empty leather flats with the sad”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“But it takes some doing to choose that particular bed”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita

“Anybody could fall for what he was. Attentive, funny, distractingly
handsome. But something else about him was making me own up to myself,
after years of trying to be invisible.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Partita