158 Quotes by Lily King

There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people.

I have a pact with myself not to think about money in the morning. I’m like a teenager trying more to think about sex.

We wander through Art of the Ancient World, past a Babylonian lion, Estruscan urns, an enameled Nubian bracelet, body parts fro Greek statues: a sandaled foot, a muscular male bum with one thigh. It's good to see art, to remember what a natural human impulse it has always been. We move into Art of Europe, the haloes and angels, the sacred birth and bloody murder of one man over and over, a whole continent possessed by one story for centuries.

That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature

I'm usually better at protecting myself from this kind of thing.''From heartbreak?''Yeah.' My throat is closing. 'I can usually get out of the way before it hits me straight on.''That's not really heartbreak then, is it?

They say women have intuition, but men can smell a competitor across state lines.

I can tell he lost someone close somehow. You can feel that in people, an openness, or maybe it's an opening that you're talking into. With other people, people who haven't been through something like that, you feel the solid wall.

It came to him that he didn't like holidays. . . . They bore down on you. Each one always ended up feeling like an exam . . .

If we didn't have fear, imagine the creativity in the world. Fear holds us back every step of the way.