Kingsolver Lacuna Quotes

#1. My search for more attributes ended when I was halted in my tracks by the sky in her eyes looking back.
I took the ball. And she noticed the sky in my eyes too.
Our eyes kissed, and from that moment, we were inseparable.

Craig Stone

#2. Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.

R.M. Donaldson

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

Douglas Alexander

#5. Or, as Jackson would have said: The people, sir-the people will set things right.

Jon Meacham

#6. In conclusion, here's my advice to aspiring writers, journalists, and future lawyers - or anyone planning on working in the communications field: if you want an accurate account of any story, go to the primary sources. They know what really happened.

Simeon Wright

#7. There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone

Jerry Garcia

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. 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

#10. People ask without wanting to know.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. That is control. Whether you want it or understand it.

Lisa Renee Jones

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#16. Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.

Maria Monk

#17. True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Albert Camus

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. Where there is love, there is vulnerability to pain.

Laura Ramirez

#20. 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

#21. I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement.

Jackson Pollock

#22. Mankind has only one science ... its the science of discontent.

Frank Herbert

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Barbara Kingsolver