All Kim Edwards Quotes
- This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but… All
- She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a… Addiction
- They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning. Distracted
- Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. Beneath
- ...bleak territory of the heart. Bleak
- So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today.… Begun
- Either things grow and change or they die. Change
- The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon. Breath
- Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like… Band
- All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to… Absolutely
- Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into… Air
- You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down. Capture
- Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and… Always Happening
- It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started. All
- You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life… Avert
- His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two. Deeply
- Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. Absorbed
- She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones. Age
- Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. Bright
- He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart. Heart
- Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea. Been
- Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. All
- He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers. Believed
- After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly? All
- The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it,… Father