Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
Kim Edwards
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Kim Edwards
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Killeen
Texas
Overcoming
Tasks
Serious
Norah
Existence
Absorbed
Simple
Utterly
Fact
Watched
Facts
Overcome
Task
More quotes by Kim Edwards
Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.
Kim Edwards
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
Kim Edwards
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
Kim Edwards
Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.
Kim Edwards
It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
Kim Edwards
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.
Kim Edwards
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
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
Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.
Kim Edwards
Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.
Kim Edwards
You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.
Kim Edwards
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
Kim Edwards
The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car
Kim Edwards
...bleak territory of the heart.
Kim Edwards
I love to swim, and I love being near water.
Kim Edwards
Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.
Kim Edwards
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
She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.
Kim Edwards
His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.
Kim Edwards
After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?
Kim Edwards