160 Quotes by Kim Edwards

I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up cases.

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.

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.

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

It's good to be in love.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

...so young, so lonely and naive, that 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.

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

She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.