Father Quotes by Kim Edwards

A moment might be a thousand different things.

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Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

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No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

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I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

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Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

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Either things grow and change or they die.

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It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

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He had never even glimpsed her.

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It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

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A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

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You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

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She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.

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You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.

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She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

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It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

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Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

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So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave…

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The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of…

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Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for…

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This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined…

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In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known…

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Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to…

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She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness…

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Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too…

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He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion…

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I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for…

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Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the…

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He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it,…

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He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of…

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He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like…

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Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still…

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There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

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His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

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Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

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That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

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Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

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But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it…

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You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or…

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