Kim Edwards

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to…

— Kim Edwards

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself,…

— Kim Edwards

My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the…

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I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

— Kim Edwards

“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.   —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers”

— Kim Edwards

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for…

— Kim Edwards

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined…

— Kim Edwards

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

— Kim Edwards

He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it,…

— Kim Edwards

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

— Kim Edwards

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

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“Anything can happen. But what goes wrong isn’t your fault. You can’t spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try…

— Kim Edwards

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person…

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“It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not…

— Kim Edwards

After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the…

— Kim Edwards

'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

— Kim Edwards

“There was so much force and beauty in the windows, such unsettled sadness in what little I knew of Rose's life, all…

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He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

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“She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was…

— Kim Edwards

'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a…

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A moment might be a thousand different things.

— Kim Edwards

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

— Kim Edwards

I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back.…

— Kim Edwards

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

— Kim Edwards

“On an impulse he went into the room and stood before the window, pushing aside the sheer curtain to watch the snow,…

— Kim Edwards