Top 25 Jane Hamilton Quotes (2024 Update)

Jane Hamilton Quote: “It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.”

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

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.”

2. “My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “I feel like I don’t have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.”

3. “I feel like I don’t have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.”

4. “Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.”

5. “Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one’s natural life.”

6. “It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one’s natural life.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.”

7. “From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.”

— Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton Quote: “It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.”

8. “It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one’s burial site.”

9. “In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one’s burial site.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable – like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.”

10. “It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable – like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.”

11. “I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.”

12. “Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.”

13. “We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”

14. “She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “I’d forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once, you know what the pull of gravity feels like. And you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.”

15. “I’d forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once, you know what the pull of gravity feels like. And you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “I love when I’m outside, feeling the sun on my skin. The grass, and the cats on the porch, and myself, all thirsting after the warmth, and finding it, make me know that there’s something mighty about our planet and the whole works out there in the universe.”

16. “I love when I’m outside, feeling the sun on my skin. The grass, and the cats on the porch, and myself, all thirsting after the warmth, and finding it, make me know that there’s something mighty about our planet and the whole works out there in the universe.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I’ll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink scales, finding her new arms to do the breaststroke to shore.”

17. “I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I’ll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink scales, finding her new arms to do the breaststroke to shore.”

— Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton Quote: “It’s all a big old chain. There isn’t one unconnected link.”

18. “It’s all a big old chain. There isn’t one unconnected link.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “I knew that we were two humans, that’s all, two humans walking around blindly in the night, looking for a warm hand.”

19. “I knew that we were two humans, that’s all, two humans walking around blindly in the night, looking for a warm hand.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.”

21. “This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “The harvest was a wild living thing that you were trying to tame while all the while it was dragging you behind, arms out, flailing, in the chase. But here was the miracle: Despite the chaos, the lack of planning, the bad feeling between Sherwood and my father, there was also an overriding unity of purpose, a reverence for the family history, a love for the soil within the property lines.”

22. “The harvest was a wild living thing that you were trying to tame while all the while it was dragging you behind, arms out, flailing, in the chase. But here was the miracle: Despite the chaos, the lack of planning, the bad feeling between Sherwood and my father, there was also an overriding unity of purpose, a reverence for the family history, a love for the soil within the property lines.”

— Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton Quote: “There were moments, I could now see, when it was understandable to completely go off your rocker. The easiest and most reasonable and maybe proper thing to do in the world, to lose hold of yourself.”

23. “There were moments, I could now see, when it was understandable to completely go off your rocker. The easiest and most reasonable and maybe proper thing to do in the world, to lose hold of yourself.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.”

24. “She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.”

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Jane Hamilton Quote: “I heard the phrases and I wanted all of me to call out in a song, a song that doesn’t have words, a song that almost doesn’t have noise. A lot of people take a short cut and call that feeling of song love. They just call it that because there isn’t a way to describe it. But the word love doesn’t describe the half of it. It doesn’t do anything to bring to mind the song we all want so desperately to sing.”

25. “I heard the phrases and I wanted all of me to call out in a song, a song that doesn’t have words, a song that almost doesn’t have noise. A lot of people take a short cut and call that feeling of song love. They just call it that because there isn’t a way to describe it. But the word love doesn’t describe the half of it. It doesn’t do anything to bring to mind the song we all want so desperately to sing.”

— Jane Hamilton

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