It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. — Jane Hamilton Book Copy Share Image
It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week. — Jane Hamilton Days off Copy Share Image
“He wore binoculars around his neck the way librarians wear their glasses.” — Jane Hamilton Binoculars Copy Share Image
“For me God was something within that allowed me, occasionally, to see.” — Jane Hamilton God Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.” — Jane Hamilton Existentialism Copy Share Image
My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way. — Jane Hamilton Deities Copy Share Image
I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have. — Jane Hamilton Feel Copy Share Image
“...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124” — Jane Hamilton Identity Copy Share Image
It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest… — Jane Hamilton Admire Copy Share Image
“I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I'll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off… — Jane Hamilton Like Fish Copy Share Image
“I knew that we were two humans, that's all, two humans walking around blindly in the night, looking for a warm hand.” — Jane Hamilton Nature of man Copy Share Image
Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill… — Jane Hamilton Destiny Copy Share Image
This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer. — Jane Hamilton Life Copy Share Image
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. — Jane Hamilton Anchors Copy Share Image
“It must be strange to keep your strong mind in a body that grows older and weaker and no longer resembles your… — Jane Hamilton Psychology Copy Share Image
“In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me… — Jane Hamilton Books Copy Share Image
“I looked up then, out the far window, and there, just within sight, the sun was going down across the river. It… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I heard the phrases and I wanted all of me to call out in a song, a song that doesn't have words,… — Jane Hamilton Love Copy Share Image
There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its… — Jane Hamilton Apples Copy Share Image
The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few… — Jane Hamilton Amanda Copy Share Image
“I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you’d look at your skin… — Jane Hamilton Love Copy Share Image
“I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once, you know what the pull… — Jane Hamilton Blood flow Copy Share Image
I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when… — Jane Hamilton Blood Copy Share Image
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of… — Jane Hamilton Bereavement Copy Share Image
“The last rain had come at the beginning of April and now, at the first of June, all but the hardiest mosquitoes… — Jane Hamilton Early morning Copy Share Image
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the… — Jane Hamilton Behinds Copy Share Image
Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old… — Jane Hamilton Blood Copy Share Image
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or… — Jane Hamilton Accident Copy Share Image
“We each had our own clocks on either side of the bed. They were old wind-up clocks from our Ann Arbor days.… — Jane Hamilton Passage of time Copy Share Image
“In May, when the grass was so green it hurt to look at it, the air so overpoweringly sweet you had to… — Jane Hamilton Front Porch Copy Share Image
“Wait." Walter went to the basket, taking what was a gray sleeve, drawing it out fro the middle of the heap. "Oh,"… — Jane Hamilton Fried chicken Copy Share Image
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave. — Jane Hamilton Change Copy Share Image
“We are part of each other's live in much the same way a lover is only slightly beneath closed lids in sleep.” — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site. — Jane Hamilton Burial Copy Share Image
We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged. — Jane Hamilton Needs Copy Share Image
“Emma, Emma, Emma," I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.” — Jane Hamilton Life Copy Share Image
“I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
“There were moments, I could now see, when it was understandable to completely go off your rocker. The easiest and most reasonable… — Jane Hamilton Lose yourself Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I… — Jane Hamilton Lost Copy Share Image
