There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“she seemed not to worry very much about ghings, but rather to accept the world as a fascinating and unusual place where… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything. Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“She had read about people-where? she could not remember this either- who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“There was so much force and beauty in the windows, such unsettled sadness in what little I knew of Rose's life, all… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers” — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. — Kim Edwards Copy Share
He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. — Kim Edwards Copy Share
“Anything can happen. But what goes wrong isn’t your fault. You can’t spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
“It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
