Jane Hamilton - The Book of Ruth (1988)

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It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Hamilton

Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.

Jane Hamilton

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

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In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.

Jane Hamilton

You have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.

Jane Hamilton

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

Jane Hamilton

I spent whole afternoons in the dirt, making my patch of grown flawless. I even cleared the worms away, before I found out that all the tunnels they make give air, and probably other molecules I don't know about yet, to the plants.

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