77 Quotes by Jane Hamilton

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one’s burial site.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable – like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I’ll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink scales, finding her new arms to do the breaststroke to shore.

It’s all a big old chain. There isn’t one unconnected link.

I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.

I’d forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once, you know what the pull of gravity feels like. And you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.

Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.

I knew that we were two humans, that’s all, two humans walking around blindly in the night, looking for a warm hand.

I love when I’m outside, feeling the sun on my skin. The grass, and the cats on the porch, and myself, all thirsting after the warmth, and finding it, make me know that there’s something mighty about our planet and the whole works out there in the universe.