“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
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
“...every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed.” — Haven Kimmel Beauty 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
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
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
“Mooreland is a long way to go to not to be anywhere when you get there.” — Haven Kimmel Long way 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
“. . .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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“The distance between Mooreland in 1965 and a city like San Francisco in 1965 is roughly equivalent to the distance starlight must… — Haven Kimmel San francisco 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
