The Memory Keeper's Daughter Quotes

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It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

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She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.

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Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

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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 a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and disappear. She had read about people – where? she could not remembe...

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Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

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Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?

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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, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?

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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 tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

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Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

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He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

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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 kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped...

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On an impulse he went into the room and stood before the window, pushing aside the sheer curtain to watch the snow, now nearly eight inches high on the lampposts and the fences and the roofs. It was the sort of storm that rarely happened in Lexington...

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You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

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Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

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Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

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It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

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She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

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Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

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