Afternoon Quote by Kim Edwards

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

— Kim Edwards

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

— Kim Edwards

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

— Kim Edwards

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 a while,…

— Kim Edwards

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

— 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, warming in…

— 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.

— Kim Edwards

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

— Kim Edwards