--- title: "6 Place Quotes By Kim Edwards" description: "6 Place quotes by Kim Edwards. Plus more from Kim Edwards and more Place sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dca/kim-edwards-3145_couple_my-first-job-was-in-a-nursing-home-a-ter_60425.png" --- > [My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/my-first-job-was-in-a-nursing-home-a-terrible-place-in-retrospect-it/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dca/kim-edwards-3145_couple_my-first-job-was-in-a-nursing-home-a-ter_60425.png) > [Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/many-lexington-natives-believe-they-live-in-a-special-place-one/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/kim-edwards-3145_about_many-lexington-natives-believe-they-live_1137070.jpg) > [Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/grief-it-seemed-was-a-physical-place/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7be/kim-edwards-3145_death_grief-it-seemed-was-a-physical-place-237_2376243.png) > [Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/your-understanding-of-a-place-changes-the-longer-you-stay-you/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/kim-edwards-3145_changes_your-understanding-of-a-place-changes-th_2522139.jpg) > [The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/the-way-we-behave-our-views-and-outlooks-really-have-their-sources/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/944/kim-edwards-3145_behave_the-way-we-behave-our-views-and-outlooks_2553442.png) > [I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/i-lived-for-two-years-in-odawara-a-castle-town-an-hour-outside-of/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/kim-edwards-3145_beautiful_i-lived-for-two-years-in-odawara-a-castl_2558789.jpg) ## Other authors on Place ## More by Kim Edwards > [In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/in-writing-i-want-to-be-remembered-for-telling-good-stories-in/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/its-impossible-to-control-the-reception-of-your-work-the-only-thing/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/my-first-job-was-in-a-nursing-home-a-terrible-place-in-retrospect-it/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/i-ve-been-accused-of-trying-too-hard-to-rescue-people/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.   —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/distance-in-a-straight-line-has-no-mystery-the-mystery-is-in-the/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/music-is-like-you-touch-the-pulse-of-the-world-music-is-always/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/this-was-her-life-not-the-life-she-had-once-dreamed-of-not-a-life-her/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/lately-the-world-felt-fragile-like-a-blown-egg-as-if-it-might-shatter/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/he-fished-in-his-pocket-for-his-keys-and-instead-pulled-out-the-last/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/away-from-the-bright-motion-of-the-party-she-carried-her-sadness-like/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/norah-watched-him-serious-and-utterly-absorbed-in-his-task-overcome/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/anything-can-happen-but-what-goes-wrong-isn-t-your-fault-you-can-t/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/though-lexington-is-not-a-small-town-it-sometimes-feels-like-one-with/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [“It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/it-s-a-kind-of-power-isn-t-it-knowing-a-secret-but-lately-i-don-t/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) > [After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-edwards/after-memory-keepers-daughter-it-took-me-a-few-months-to-shut-out-the/) [Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-edwards/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/place/kim-edwards/#itemlist", "name": "6 Place Quotes By Kim Edwards", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. 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