Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter Quotes
Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.
You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.
After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?
No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
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.
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
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.
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.
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.
Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.
Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?