Top 70 Kim Edwards Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”

— Kim Edwards

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2. “Either things grow and change or they die.”

— Kim Edwards

3. “You can’t stop time. You can’t capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”

— Kim Edwards

4. “He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.”

— Kim Edwards

5. “It’s good to be in love.”

— Kim Edwards

6. “After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?”

— Kim Edwards

7. “Do what you love, and the money will follow.”

— Kim Edwards

8. “It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.”

— Kim Edwards

9. “Short on money, long on hope.”

— Kim Edwards

10. “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.”

— Kim Edwards

11. “That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.”

— Kim Edwards

12. “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.”

— Kim Edwards

13. “It’s funny how things seem different, suddenly.”

— Kim Edwards

14. “My first job was in a nursing home – a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.”

— Kim Edwards

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15. “This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.”

— Kim Edwards

16. “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

17. “You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”

— Kim Edwards

18. “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.”

— Kim Edwards

19. “She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.”

— Kim Edwards

20. “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

21. “After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.”

— Kim Edwards

22. “She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love – nothing, now, but bones.”

— Kim Edwards

23. “It wasn’t right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn’t stop until something stopped you.”

— Kim Edwards

24. “His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.”

— Kim Edwards

25. “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.”

— Kim Edwards

26. “Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.”

— Kim Edwards

27. “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

28. “Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.”

— Kim Edwards

29. “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

30. “The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.”

— Kim Edwards

31. “There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.”

— Kim Edwards

32. “Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.”

— Kim Edwards

33. “A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.”

— Kim Edwards

34. “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.”

— Kim Edwards

35. “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.”

— Kim Edwards

36. “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

37. “Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.”

— Kim Edwards

38. “Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.”

— Kim Edwards

39. “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

40. “I love to swim, and I love being near water.”

— Kim Edwards

41. “A moment might be a thousand different things.”

— Kim Edwards

42. “I’ve been accused of trying too hard to rescue people.”

— Kim Edwards

43. “No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.”

— Kim Edwards

44. “The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.”

— Kim Edwards

45. “They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.”

— Kim Edwards

46. “Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.”

— Kim Edwards

47. “Its impossible to control the reception of your work – the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.”

— Kim Edwards

48. “Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.”

— Kim Edwards

49. “Writing is always a process of discovery – I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.”

— Kim Edwards

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50. “He had never even glimpsed her.”

— Kim Edwards