“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
“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
I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have. — Jane Hamilton Feels Copy Share Image
In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site. — Jane Hamilton Burial 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
...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
“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 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
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
“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 all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged. — Jane Hamilton Needs 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
“He wore binoculars around his neck the way librarians wear their glasses.” — Jane Hamilton 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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'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
“...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
