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She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.
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The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.
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Norah looked at her son's tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and disappear. She had read about people – where? she could not remember this either – who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to be not yet of the earth, suspended still between two worlds.
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He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own, this girl who had decided yes, a brief moment of release in the back of a car, in the room of a silent house, this girl who had stood up later, adjusting her clothes, with now knowledge of how that moment was already shaping her life.
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This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.
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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.
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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.
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They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.
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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.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Kim Edwards
Born:
May 4, 1958
(age 66)
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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