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It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
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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.
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She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.
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Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.
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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.
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The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her... so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car
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Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
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And the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.
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Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
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Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
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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.
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It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
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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.
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He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.
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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.
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There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.
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A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.
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So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.
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His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.
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You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.
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That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
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After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?
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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?
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Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.
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He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.
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Kim Edwards
Born:
May 4, 1958
(age 65)
Bio:
Kim Edwards is an American author and educator.
Known for:
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2005)
The Lake of Dreams (2010)
The secrets of a fire king (1997)
Hija de la memoria
The Onion Lady (2006)
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