The Lacuna

Barbara Kingsolver

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”

“nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.”

“Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown”

“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”

“This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.”

“You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.”

“The past is all we know of the future.”

“Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.”

“War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.”

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Book Keywords:

loneliness, isolation