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The Lacuna

The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver

The Lacuna is a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It is Kingsolver's sixth novel, and won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction and the Library of Virginia Literary Award. It was shortlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award.

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“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”

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“Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown”

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“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

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“… nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.”

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“Eyes can pierce a skull.”

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