“Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?” — Kim Edwards Effort Copy Share Image
He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart. — Kim Edwards Dreams Copy Share Image
“car. Remembering her kneeling the dirt, planting morning glory seeds.” — Kim Edwards Flower Copy Share Image
I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me. — Kim Edwards Books Copy Share Image
The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“For this is what I have learned, in my short life: do not act out of anger. Act from love or not… — Kim Edwards Anger Copy Share Image
I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover. — Kim Edwards Children Copy Share Image
“All day she had been dreaming of the comet, its wild and fiery beauty, what it might mean, how her life might… — Kim Edwards Beauty Copy Share Image
“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 Secret Copy Share Image
Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“The world beyond the water was a blue of green and stone and blue. A moment later Yoshi pushed through, the water… — Kim Edwards Blue Copy Share Image
Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen.… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“You're right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life… — Kim Edwards Life Copy Share Image
The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of… — Kim Edwards Father Copy Share Image
“What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything. Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by… — Kim Edwards Children Copy Share Image
“Why did she [Madame Curie] seek to tame this mystery, which in the hands of others turned a multitude to ashes? Her… — Kim Edwards Curie Copy Share Image
“When he reached the desk he handed Caroline a photograph in a dark blue cardboard frame. It was a portrait, black and… — Kim Edwards Black and white Copy Share Image
“Around me the beautiful windows, connecting me to other lives and other times, to things done and also deliberately left undone, stood… — Kim Edwards Beauty Copy Share Image
You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy. — Kim Edwards Father Copy Share Image
It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two. — Kim Edwards Father Copy Share Image
“The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.” — Kim Edwards Giving Copy Share Image
Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. — Kim Edwards Father Copy Share Image
“his discomfort seemed to soften her, for when he met her eyes again, they were kind.” — Kim Edwards Discomfort Copy Share Image
I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place,… — Kim Edwards Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I wondered if I could call my experience in the chapel prayer--not a long list of asking, after all, or a rote… — Kim Edwards Communication Copy Share Image
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![“Why did she [Madame Curie] seek to tame this mystery, which in the hands of others turned a multitude to ashes? Her work exploded with the violence of a thousand suns, but I must tell her that it was not her fault, the way they twisted her creation, tampered with her dreams. "I will tell her…” quote by Kim Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a6/kim-edwards-3145_curie_why-did-she-madame-curie-seek-to-tame-th_704522.png)
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