160 Quotes by Kim Edwards

I suppose I want him to be happy,” she said at last. “Whatever in life makes him happy, I want him to have that. I don’t care what it is, as long as he grows up to be good and true to himself.

But now she dreamed every night of lost things.

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love – nothing, now, but bones.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different.

You’re right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn’t your fault. 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.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything’s connetcted to everything else.

Do what you love, and the money will follow.

It wasn’t right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn’t stop until something stopped you.

Now that he was in school, he had his own life. He no longer liked to site and cuddle with her unless he was sick or wanted her to read him a story before bed.