“This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, book Prodigal Summer

Source: Prodigal Summer

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong wo…" by Barbara Kingsolver?

Barbara Kingsolver119

American author, poet and essayist 1955

Related quotes

“Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.”

Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright

Garden of Tortures

“Love is… born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!”

José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader

Amor (1887)

“Roger: Yeah, our bunks are right across from each other so sometimes we sing each other to sleep at night. It’s lovely, you should check it out.”

Roger Manganelli (1973) American musician

“They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

“Generally when people speak to each other they use words.”

Enda Kenny (1951) Irish Fine Gael politician and Taoiseach

At a public event in July 2012. Irish Independent http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/lost-for-words-3174922.html <br class="br">2010s

“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“They held each other and kissed and pushed each others' darkness into the corner, believing in each others' light, each others' dream.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

“It was impossible to conceive of two creatures so different who got along so well and loved each other so much.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

“What I hate the most in the world is injustice. Unfortunately, there is a lot of injustice in the world. Once we understood the mission that God gave us in this earth that is to sing to love, try to repeat his word, spread his word, because there is no other thing that we do but sing to love, tell people to be happy. Not to hurt each other, hit each other, kill each other.”

José José (1948–2019) Mexican singer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExtaUyCkYaY

“I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Barbara Kingsolver119

Related quotes

Related topics