Quotes by Kim Edwards

About Kim Edwards:

Kim Edwards is an American author and educator. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2005), is a New York Times Bestseller, and was honored with the Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award at the 2008 British Book Awards.
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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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Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, ...

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Some dreams matter, illuminate a crucial choice or reveal some intuition that's trying to push its way to the surface. Other, though, are detritus, the residue of the day reassembling itself in some disjointed and chaotic way ... Frantic dreams, they...

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... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]

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The world beyond the water was a blue of green and stone and blue. A moment later Yoshi pushed through, the water pouring down in sheets so smooth it looked like glass, and stepped into the calm [p. 296]

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Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor...

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Author Bio

  • NameKim Edwards
  • DescriptionAuthor, educator
  • BornMay 4, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters
  • WorksThe Memory Keeper's Daughter