This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined… — 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 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 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
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
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
The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon. — Kim Edwards 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 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
“There was in the mountains, and perhaps in the world at large, a theory of compensation that held that for everything given… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“All day she had been dreaming of the comet, its wild and fiery beauty, what it might mean, how her life might… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life. — Kim Edwards 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 Copy Share Image
“You're right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“i have found that if you love your life .. Life will love you back .! :)” — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I think that it would be hard to find a family that didn't have a secret in it somewhere, and sometimes we… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life. — 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
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. — 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, warming in… — Kim Edwards 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 Copy Share Image
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. — 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 and avert… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
