Quotes of Kim Edwards - somelinesforyou

“ It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell. ”

- Kim Edwards

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

- Kim Edwards

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

- Kim Edwards

“ Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, too. It was humbling to consider all these authors, struggling with this word or that phrase, recording their thoughts for people they'd never meet. In that same way, the detritus of the boxes was humbling receipts, jotted notes, photos with no inscriptions, all of it once held together by the fabric of lives now finished, gone. ”

- Kim Edwards
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