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She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.Kim Edwards
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You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.Kim Edwards
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After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?Kim Edwards
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It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.Kim Edwards
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No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.Kim Edwards
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The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?Kim Edwards
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Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.Kim Edwards
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All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.Kim Edwards
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Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.Kim Edwards
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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.Kim Edwards
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It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.Kim Edwards
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He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.Kim Edwards
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In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.Kim Edwards
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Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.Kim Edwards
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Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.Kim Edwards
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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
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Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.Kim Edwards
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Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?Kim Edwards
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Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.Kim Edwards
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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.Kim Edwards