Another life Quote by Kim Edwards Download Open image “She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.” — Kim Edwards ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Another life Difficult Exotic Father Life Moving Saws
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured.” — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others,” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things… — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
“She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers” — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Small memories of another life flutter through my head like moths — all grey images and tearstains” — A.R. Kahler Copy Share Image
When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world. — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth. — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a bit of advice.' the girl said bitterly, 'from one working girl to another; life isn't easy, no matter where… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“The vibrations he felt in his sleep had nothing to do with his soul easing out of his body as he dreamily thought; they… — Author-Poet Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image