Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Rain

• That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Strong, Rain, Hands

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). "The Bean Trees: A Novel", Harpercollins

• Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on the breath of immortality.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Party, Rain, Sunshine

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

• A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Rain, Hair, Chill

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.26, Faber & Faber

• ...confiar en la Creación que se renueva cada día y no sufre en la traducción. Este Dios no trabaja de forma especialmente misteriosa. Aquí el sol sale y se pone exactamente a las seis. Una oruga se convierte en mariposa. Un pájaro cría a su polluelo en el bosque y un árbol de corazón verde sólo crece de una semilla de corazón verde. A veces trae sequías seguidas de lluvias torrenciales y si estas cosas no son siempre lo que yo tenía en mente, tampoco son mi castigo. Son recompensas, digamos por la paciencia de una semilla.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Rain, Butterfly, Punishment

• For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. Miraculously, it causes these girls to grow. They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads. You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they'll still move toward him. Without cease they'll bend to his light.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Niña, Hija, Padre

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.162, Faber & Faber

• Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Rain, Mean

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.289, Faber & Faber

• Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Rain, Garden

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.60, Faber & Faber

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