Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna Quotes

#1. Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

Robbie Williams

#3. When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

Laozi

#5. Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.
Lacuna

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#6. Now - a profanity-spewing guttersnipe being dragged out of a crack house on Cops. I

Katja Millay

#7. Don't get your knickers in a knot just yet, Tiff,' she said briskly. 'It won't solve anything an' will just make you walk odd.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. People ask without wanting to know.

Barbara Kingsolver

#10. Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,
he never quite goes this low.

Morrissey

#13. The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.

George Wald

#15. I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.

Andrew Stanton

#16. We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.

John Quincy Adams

#17. Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there. It shows in the way she places a seashell on a window sill, a red-painted chair in the corner: she is practiced in the art of creating a still life and taking up residence inside it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

Barbara Kingsolver