• The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.

    Barbara Kingsolver: The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
    Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.320, Faber & Faber