The Lacuna Quotes

#1. Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered and consumed. A cultural lacuna has opened, one that needs arresting.

Tom Cardamone

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. 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

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

Ernest Gellner

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. People ask without wanting to know.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. 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

#12. I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!

Anne Frank

#13. Lacuna peered at my shirt. "Aer-O-Smith. Arrowsmith. Does the shirt belong to your weapon dealer?"
"No."
"Then why do you wear the shirt of someone else's weapon dealer?

Jim Butcher

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

Ursula Andress

#16. I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

Junot Diaz

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. Sometimes when you cannot decide what to do, you pretend to be a character in a book, because it is easier to decide what they would do-Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare

#19. Hunter Dawson - annoyingly attractive. Downgraded for having an awful personality.

Audrey Bell

#20. You were mine, even when you were his.

Kristen Ashley