158 Quotes by Lily King

Is it always that way with men, that first burst of love or sex the thing that binds you? Do you always have to harken back to those first weeks when just the way he walked across a room made you want to take off all your clothes?

It’s that moment about two months in, when you think you’ve finally got a handle on the place. Suddenly it feels within your grasp. It’s a delusion – you’ve only been there eight weeks – and it’s followed by the complete despair of ever understanding anything. But at the moment the place feels entirely yours. It’s the briefest, purest euphoria.

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.

I just find it extraordinary that you think you have something to say.

Hello and goodbye are the same. Baya ban,” she said. “As many times as you can stand it.

Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.

It was so awful and weird. I could see all the things I had loved about him, I could see them, but I didn't love them anymore.

For long stretches of time it felt like we were crawling around each other's brain.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.