The Lacuna Quotes

“The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“People ask without wanting to know.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“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, The Lacuna

“Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“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

“...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“But this boy in a French or British factory, standing in his leather overall welding the casing on a metal bomb; what can he see? That thing will fly through the air, fall hundreds of miles away, and kill boys in leather overalls in a German factory. the reports will roar victory or defeat, and boys will never know how alike their lives have been.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“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