Quotes by Kim Edwards

“No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.”

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

“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 som...”

“... 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]”

“After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?”

“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...”

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

“It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.”

“All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, sur...”

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

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

“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 finger...”

“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.”

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

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

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

“In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glim...”

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

“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 tha...”

“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.”