He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts. Kim Edwards
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
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Sara Gruen
Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away as she could, and then watching...
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Beth Neff
There is no success where there are no secrets.
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Anonymous
Every woman needs secrets, ' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig...
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J. Courtney Sullivan
There is nothing more destructive to the human soul than the secrets we keep from each other.
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Avi Arad
More Quotes By Kim Edwards
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.
You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.
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....
Some dreams matter, illuminate a crucial choice or reveal some intuition that's trying to push its way to the surface. Other, though, are detritus, the residue of the day reassembling itself in some disjointed and chaotic way .. Frantic dreams, they left me tired, and...
... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]
