Lily King Quotes
Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lily King
Lily King Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
Most women like to fuss around a wound of your past, pick at the thin scab, comfort you after they'd made it sting. Not Nell.
To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.
I wasn't sure how I would kiss her without lifting her up to my lips. She laughed as if I had said this out loud.
I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.
I felt in some ways we'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words...
I has a last look at the sea, which was rumpled and agitated, a thick muscle that would hold on tight to everything it swallowed.
You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her waist.
When only one person is the expert on a particular people, do we learn more about the people or the anthropologist when we read the analysis?
If I smiled at her she smiled back, and there were times I half pretended, half believed, she was my wife.
Narrative is the way to communicate ideas. Philosophy just tastes bad to most people unless you wrap it up in a good story.
I didn't want to miss the euphoria. I haven't, have I? You said it happened at the second-month mark.
There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.
Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?
She poured me another drink and in the light breeze of her movements I smelled again the manufactured smell of these women.
-Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life?
-I don't think we ever talk about anything else.
-I don't think we ever talk about anything else.
You don't realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.
I've always been able to see the savageness beneath the veneer of society. It's not so very far beneath the surface, no matter where you go.
It all goes back to this idea of ownership again. Once I published that book and my words became a commodity, something broke between us.
We'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds of thousands of words.
I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.
She stared at me and nodded into the silence between us, as if I were still talking and making perfect sense.