158 Quotes by Lily King

You don’t realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can’t understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren’t always the most reliable thing.

It’s good to get whacked open at least once, though,′ she says. ‘You can’t really love from inside a big, thick shell.

It’s always a choice between fireworks and coffee in bed,′ Fabiana says. ‘It always is.

I think above all else it is freedom I search for in my work, in these far-flung places, to find a group of people who give each other the room to be in whatever way they need to be.

You don’t realize how much effort you’ve put into covering things up until you try to dig them out.

He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach.

He has called to ask you out on a date. Do not mention a dead mother.

She laughed. ‘Was she wine or bread to you?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘It’s from an Amy Lowell poem we all loved in college. Wine is sort of thrilling and sensual, and bread is familiar and essential.

We’re always, in everything we do in this world, she said, limited by subjectivity.