“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards is an American author and educator. She was born in Killeen, Texas, grew up in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, and graduated from Colgate University and The University of Iowa, where she earned an MFA in fiction and an MA in linguistics. She is the author of a story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; her stories have been published in The Paris Review, Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, and many other periodicals. She has received many awards for the short story as well, including a Pushcart Prize, the National Magazine Award, the Nelson Algren Award, and inclusion in both The Best American Short Stories and the Symphony Space program ‘Selected Shorts.’ She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, as well as grants from the Pennsylvania and Kentucky Arts Councils, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, her first novel, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Award pick and became a word-of-mouth best-seller, spending 122 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, 20 of those weeks at #1. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter won the Kentucky Literary Award and the British Book Award, and was chosen as Book of the Year for 2006 by USA Today. Her second novel, The Lake of Dreams, an Independent Booksellers pick, was also an international best seller; her work has been published in more than 32 countries. Currently, Kim is working on a new novel, as well as a collection of related stories.
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“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter