Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising. — Haven Kimmel Fats Copy Share Image
“Mooreland is a long way to go to not to be anywhere when you get there.” — Haven Kimmel Long Copy Share Image
“...every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed.” — Haven Kimmel Beauty Copy Share Image
My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone. — Haven Kimmel Gone Copy Share Image
“laura had hoped, she'd written in her journal, that whatever befell her daughters, they would not be damaged at the level of… — Haven Kimmel Children Copy Share Image
I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says. — Haven Kimmel Mother Copy Share Image
What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance… — Haven Kimmel Another chance Copy Share Image
“I couldn't for the life of me figure out how long a person had to live, or how good she had to… — Haven Kimmel Life Copy Share Image
But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you… — Haven Kimmel People Copy Share Image
“My mom insisted on saying such things, even though almost no one understood what she meant. My Dad sometimes called her Addlebrain… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
“How is it possible, she thought, that a person can drive a thinking, feeling, animal to slaughter and not become less than… — Haven Kimmel Animals Copy Share Image
“It was an Indian summer afternoon in Indiana, a rare gift. We walked home slowly. I thought Mom might be wrong about… — Haven Kimmel Indian summer Copy Share Image
On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were… — Haven Kimmel Book Copy Share Image
“The distance between Mooreland in 1965 and a city like San Francisco in 1965 is roughly equivalent to the distance starlight must… — Haven Kimmel Moon Copy Share Image
“The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost… — Haven Kimmel Books Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because… — Haven Kimmel Believe Copy Share Image
“. . .Since we were only going to the best place on the Earth, where every single minute of every day was… — Haven Kimmel Every day Copy Share Image
“He sang like an angel, he was faithful to God and he waited honorably for the wife he believed God chose for… — Haven Kimmel Children Copy Share Image
My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater… — Haven Kimmel Believe Copy Share Image
“You could buy individual boxes of detergent and fabric softener, even bleach, and there was nothing that made me grind my teeth… — Haven Kimmel First time Copy Share Image
“The pigs were pushing their noses through the slats in the truck bed, which made Langston so unaccountably sad she thought she… — Haven Kimmel Sad Thought Copy Share Image
“That cat doesn't have a lick of sense,' I said, sighing. Well, honey, he's not right in the head,' Dad said, flipping… — Haven Kimmel Funny Copy Share Image
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of… — Haven Kimmel Book Copy Share Image
On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved… — Haven Kimmel Animal Copy Share Image
“There are people in this world so perfect that the fact of them seems like a personal gift...” — Haven Kimmel A-girl-named-zippy Copy Share Image
“I could no longer look at him. I wished, in fact, for blindness.” — Haven Kimmel Blindness Copy Share Image
“I sensed weeping and salvation in the air, two of my least favorite things.” — Haven Kimmel Favorite thing Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of wildness that grows up among people who have gathered in the dark, and we all felt a… — Haven Kimmel Dark Copy Share Image
“She had taken her vows and then they had taken her, and the forces amassed against her were greater than love, greater… — Haven Kimmel Love Copy Share Image
My favorite was Love Is...Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time… — Haven Kimmel Apologizing Copy Share Image
“I once heard her tell a friend that she was, in fact, a 120-pound woman, but she kept herself wrapped in fat… — Haven Kimmel Body image Copy Share Image
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this?… — Haven Kimmel Beauty Copy Share Image
“But you can't ever live in the place you dream about, the town you long for. ...the moment you become conscious of… — Haven Kimmel Desire Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the side of the house would exert a strange and supernatural magnetic force upon my body, which would cause me to… — Haven Kimmel Magnetic Copy Share Image
“I am hyper vigilant and would be dangerous if threatened… If someone broke into my house or attacked me in the street,… — Haven Kimmel Threatened Copy Share Image
I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even… — Haven Kimmel Athlete Copy Share Image
They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of… — Haven Kimmel Children Copy Share Image
![“The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost was very, very good at that. If you're asking whatit MEANS that the line is repeated [and miles to go before I sleep] I'd have to say I don't know. It's stylistic. But the effect is pretty clear.” quote by Haven Kimmel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/28e/haven-kimmel-14289_books_the-best-answer-i-can-give-is-that-poetr_1294407.jpg)
![“Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?” quote by Haven Kimmel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2e4/haven-kimmel-14289_beauty_possibility-infinity-beauty-none-of-thos_3079745.jpg)
