Kim Edwards Quotes

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

  Kim Edwards

  Photography, Father, Secret

  "The Memory Keeper's Daughter". Book by Kim Edwards, June 28, 2005.

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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.

  Kim Edwards

  Missing, Trying, Rest Of Your Life

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin

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• You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Heartache, Joy

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.249, Penguin

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

  Kim Edwards

  Years, Might, Feels

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.216, Penguin

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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.

  Kim Edwards

  Silence, Secret

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.203, Penguin

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• A moment might be a thousand different things.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Might, Different

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.215, Penguin

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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.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Fall

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.263, Penguin

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

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Lying, Ends

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.68, Penguin

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• Toda aquella tarde soleada, viajando hacia el norte y el este, Caroline creía absolutamente en el futuro. ¿Y por qué no? Porque si lo peor ya les había ocurrido a los ojos del mundo, entonces seguramente, seguramente, era lo peor lo que dejaban atrás ahora.

  Kim Edwards

  Eye, Sunny Afternoon, East

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.76, Penguin

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• Either things grow and change or they die.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Grows, Dies

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.376, Penguin

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• ...tan joven, tan solitaria e ingenua, que se imaginaba a sí misma como una especie de recipiente al que llenar de amor. Pero no era así. El amor estaba dentro de ella todo el tiempo y sólo se renovaba entregándolo.

  Kim Edwards

  Lonely, Filled Up, Giving

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• ...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

  Kim Edwards

  Distance, Space, Caverns

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.119, Penguin

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• Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Grief

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.305, Penguin

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• His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Two, Woven

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.123, Penguin

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• So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Somewhere Else, New Life

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.74, Penguin

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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.

  Kim Edwards

  Love, Memories, Father

  Kim Edwards (2010). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter”, p.204, Penguin UK

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• A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

  Kim Edwards

  Single Mom, Numbers, Different

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.214, Penguin

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

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Party, Sadness

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.154, Penguin

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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.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Airplane, Thinking

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin

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• It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Different, Seems

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.278, Penguin

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• A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Years, Alchemist

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.381, Penguin

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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?

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Knowing, Feelings

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.294, Penguin

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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.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Self, Care

  Kim Edwards (2010). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter”, p.328, Penguin UK

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• Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

  Kim Edwards

  Community, Understanding, Woven

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

  Kim Edwards

  Sea, World, Shallow

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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