Kim Edwards Quotes

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• He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his…
• A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.
• He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own,…
• But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw…
• It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
• Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.
• It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.
• She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.
• I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people
• He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a…
• That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
• The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed,…
• A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.
• Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant…
• I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those…
• There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.
• Short on money, long on hope
• Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.
• ...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.
• He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with…

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