This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing… — 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 Children 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 Change 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
'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“...Caroline said easily, amazed all over again at this sudden facility she'd developed, the fluidity and ease of her lies.” — Kim Edwards Truth Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t blame him, no, you couldn’t fault him for wanting to go deeper into every fleeting moment, to study its mystery.” — Kim Edwards Time Copy Share Image
“The year was 1922, and the Curies had transformed plain earth into something rare and unimagined. A secret of the universe has… — Kim Edwards Change Copy Share Image
All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in… — Kim Edwards Beauty Copy Share Image
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the… — Kim Edwards Couple Copy Share Image
After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“It's always like this after a few days here. I start to lose my bearings. The surface is one way, but then… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
It's kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I'll make a note about it. I may even… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Anything can happen. But what goes wrong isn’t your fault. You can’t spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try… — Kim Edwards Life 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
“It shocked me, the strength of the image, the desire I had to see if it might happen this way- though I… — Kim Edwards Desire Copy Share Image
William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Dinosaurs drank this water, did you know that? Water moves forever in a circle; someday, little ones, your grandchildren may even drink… — Kim Edwards Dinosaurs Copy Share Image
I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers” — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too… — Kim Edwards Father Copy Share Image
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. — Kim Edwards Dark Copy Share Image
...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge… — Kim Edwards Caverns Copy Share Image
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him. — Kim Edwards Father Copy Share Image
“... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak.… — Kim Edwards Dream Copy Share Image
“Paul, careening down the slide with his arms out flung, and Phoebe, present somehow through her absence.” — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness… — Kim Edwards Addiction Copy Share Image
“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves...full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter… — Kim Edwards Book Copy Share Image
He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers. — Kim Edwards Secret Copy Share Image
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. — Kim Edwards Absorbed Copy Share Image
There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself,… — Kim Edwards Control Copy Share Image
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
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