“For me God was something within that allowed me, occasionally, to see.” — Jane Hamilton God 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
“Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.” — Jane Hamilton Existentialism Copy Share Image
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
In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site. — Jane Hamilton Burial 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
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
“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
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
“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 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’ve found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the… — Jane Hamilton Life 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
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
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
“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
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
“The two or so times we actually fought she smashed a plate and stormed out into the night. I have always disliked… — Jane Hamilton Argument Copy Share Image
“However, Mr. Darcy was the man I truly admired. I see him clearly. He is exceptionally tall, and his head is covered… — Jane Hamilton Admired Copy Share Image
From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a… — Jane Hamilton Believe Copy Share Image
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing,… — Jane Hamilton Be grateful 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“...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
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave. — Jane Hamilton Change 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 Mind body 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
“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
It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us. — Jane Hamilton Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know if the forgiveness itself was light, glittery stuff that showered down and absolved a person and set them free,… — Jane Hamilton Burden 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
