Kim Edwards Quotes
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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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Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
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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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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 his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.
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This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.
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I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people
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Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.
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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 remember this either – who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to be not yet of the earth, suspended still between two worlds.
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Either things grow and change or they die.
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Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
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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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It's good to be in love.
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Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.
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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. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.
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You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.
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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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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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That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
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She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.
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They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.
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Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.
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The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.
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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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It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
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But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.
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A moment might be a thousand different things.
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This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.
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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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My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.
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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 out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.
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