The Lacuna Quotes.

1. "The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know."
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

2. "Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives."
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

3. "...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness."
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

4. "you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece"
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

5. "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"
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

6. "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."
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

7. "Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular."
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

8. "The past is all we know of the future."
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

9. "The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know."
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

10. "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."
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

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