I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in… — Lily King Copy Share Image
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like… — Lily King Body Copy Share Image
There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy. — Lily King Copy Share Image
When you have people who get angry quickly, you have to learn the rules to avoid being in that situation. — Lily King Angry Copy Share Image
To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were… — Lily King Childhood Copy Share Image
“You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped… — Lily King Analogy Copy Share Image
“Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?” — Lily King Copy Share Image
I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real… — Lily King Fantastic Copy Share Image
You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an… — Lily King Attention Copy Share Image
“Who are we and were are we going? Why are we, with all our "progress" so limited in understanding and sympathy and… — Lily King Freedom Copy Share Image
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you… — Lily King Computer Copy Share Image
“So much of this trip had been spent gazing at spectacular sights, which always filled me, as this one did now, with… — Lily King Beauty Copy Share Image
It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere,… — Lily King Failure Copy Share Image
“Is it always that way with men, that first burst of love or sex the thing that binds you? Do you always… — Lily King Clothes Copy Share Image
“It’s that moment about two months in, when you think you’ve finally got a handle on the place. Suddenly it feels within… — Lily King Anthropology Copy Share Image
“And this led to another round of mapping as we separated men from women, finding that while the male ethos usually represented… — Lily King Feminism Copy Share Image
“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an… — Lily King Communication Copy Share Image
“It came to him that he didn't like holidays. . . . They bore down on you. Each one always ended up… — Lily King Holiday Copy Share Image
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“Despite everything, I believed somehow there was time. Love's first mistake. Perhaps love's only mistake.” — Lily King Love Copy Share Image
I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather… — Lily King Brain Copy Share Image
