Jane Hamilton Quotes

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• It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.
• We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.
• I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so…
• There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain…
• From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around…
• It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.
• It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
• It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into…
• She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
• I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.
• I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate…
• ...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too…
• We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes…
• Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless…

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