Lucy Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

#1. However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

William Golding

#2. God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

Max Lucado

#3. She walks slowly. She wants to feel the prick, the push of every bit of gravel under her shoe. She wants to feel every scratch, every discomfort of this ... her leaving walk.

Maggie O'Farrell

#4. Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

Doris Lessing

#5. What often appears to destroy us is what eventually defines us and takes us to a better place.

Mike Coe

#6. There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me.

Drake

#7. But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph.

Jamaica Kincaid

#8. Something settiled inside me, something heavy and hard. It stayed there, and i could not think of one thing to make it go away. I thought, So this must be living, this must be the beginning of the time people later refer to as 'years ago, when I was young'.

Jamaica Kincaid

#9. Isn't it the most blissful thing in the world to be away from everything you have ever known
to be so far away that you don't even know yourself anymore and you're not sure you ever want to come back to all of the things you're a part of?

Jamaica Kincaid

#10. Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

Jamaica Kincaid

#11. I had one more thing to add to my expanding world.

Jamaica Kincaid

#12. Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

Paulo Coelho

#13. No amount of sleep will ever satisfy the tiredness i always feel.

Unknown

#14. Friendship affords total certitude above all and that is what distinguishes it from love. It means respect as well and total acceptance of another being.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#15. By then I already knew that I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense.

Jamaica Kincaid