We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones. — Kim Edwards Age Copy Share Image
“For this is what I have learned, in my short life: do not act out of anger. Act from love or not… — Kim Edwards Anger Copy Share Image
Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to… — Kim Edwards Father Copy Share Image
I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back.… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“I imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on… — Kim Edwards Short stories Copy Share Image
I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in… — Kim Edwards Ancestors Copy Share Image
Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest… — Kim Edwards College Copy Share Image
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person… — Kim Edwards Acquaintance Copy Share Image
The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined… — Kim Edwards Attention 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
In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known… — Kim Edwards Alive Copy Share Image