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> [I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose your stomach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/i-used-to-think-if-you-fell-from-grace-it-was-more-likely-than-not/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

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## More by Jane Hamilton

> [“I’ve found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the truth once,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/i-ve-found-it-takes-at-least-two-and-generally-three-things-to-alter/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/from-early-on-i-valued-the-gift-of-memory-above-all-others-i/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/we-re-only-passers-by-and-all-you-can-do-is-love-what-you-have-in/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [“I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I'll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/i-will-hear-a-noise-like-a-fish-jumping-and-when-i-look-i-ll-see/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/i-used-to-think-if-you-fell-from-grace-it-was-more-likely-than-not/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [“The two or so times we actually fought she smashed a plate and stormed out into the night. I have always disliked an argument.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/the-two-or-so-times-we-actually-fought-she-smashed-a-plate-and/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/this-was-life-i-supposed-running-and-running-and-running-and/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/she-read-books-quickly-and-compulsively-paperback-after-paperback-as/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [“In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/in-charles-dickens-s-books-i-had-to-admire-the-way-the-meanest/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [“Wait." Walter went to the basket, taking what was a gray sleeve, drawing it out fro the middle of the heap. "Oh," He said.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/wait-walter-went-to-the-basket-taking-what-was-a-gray-sleeve-drawing/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/the-magical-descriptions-of-italy-and-hilarious-observations-about/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/i-had-forgotten-what-it-was-like-to-be-drawn-to-a-person-i-d/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/there-were-so-many-miracles-at-work-that-a-blossom-might-become-a/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [“However, Mr. Darcy was the man I truly admired. I see him clearly. He is exceptionally tall, and his head is covered with black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/however-mr-darcy-was-the-man-i-truly-admired-i-see-him-clearly-he-is/)

[Jane Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hamilton/)

> [“Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hamilton/sometimes-i-couldn-t-figure-it-out-what-all-the-living-was-for/)

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