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The Lacuna Quotes

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

Sympathy Mothers The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“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.”

Communism Mccarthyism Anticommunism The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver Dies Committee

Book:The Lacuna

Source: 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.”

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.”

Lying Media The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.”

Book:The Lacuna

Source: 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.”

Author: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.”

Author:Barbara Kingsolver