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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. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. May 1958

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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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Famous Kim Edwards Quotes

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

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“… so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.”

Kim Edwards book 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.”

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

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“Either things grow and change or they die.”

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Kim Edwards Quotes about love

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

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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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“It's good to be in love.”

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Kim Edwards Quotes

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

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“A moment might be a thousand different things.”

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“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.”

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

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“Short on money, long on hope”

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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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“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 book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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