160 Quotes by Kim Edwards

They can learn- they must learn- to appreciate the history of their good fortune through the experiences of those who not only witnessed history, but made it.

Grown now, he stood in a train station or on the sidewalk beneath fluttering leaves or strode across a street. He paused in front of shop windows, or reached into his pocket for a ticket, or shaded his eyes against the sun. He’d grown from her body and now, astonishingly, he moved through the world without her. She.

You can’t stop time. You can’t capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

For the rest of his life, he realized, he would be torn like this, aware of Phoebe’s awkwardness, the difficulties she encountered in the world simply by being different, and ye propelled beyond all this by her direct and guileless love. By her love, yes, and, he realized... by his own new and strangely uncomplicated love for her.

The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.

It’s good to be in love.

How was it possible to let a child grow up and go out into that dangerous and unpredictable world?

You hold me at arm’s length.

She didn’t love him and he didn’t love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.