Quote

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.

Kim Edwards

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Kim Edwards
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Killeen
Texas
Small
Words
Experience
Father
Mother
Fiancee
Young
Contain
Ever
Discovered
Wife

More quotes by Kim Edwards

Image
She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.
Kim Edwards
Image
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.
Kim Edwards
Image
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, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.
Kim Edwards
Image
It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
Kim Edwards
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Either things grow and change or they die.
Kim Edwards
Image
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
Image
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
Image
It's good to be in love.
Kim Edwards
Image
Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.
Kim Edwards
Image
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.
Kim Edwards
Image
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
Image
He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.
Kim Edwards
Image
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
Kim Edwards
Image
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
Image
After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?
Kim Edwards
Image
After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.
Kim Edwards
Image
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
Kim Edwards
Image
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