“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel by American author Kim Edwards that tells the story of a man who gives away his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to one of the nurses. Published by Viking Press in June 2005, the novel garnered great interest via word of mouth in the summer of 2006 and placed on the New York Times Paperback Bestsellers List. The novel was adapted into a television film and premiered on Lifetime Television on April 12, 2008.
“It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.”
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“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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“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
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“Either things grow and change or they die.”
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“After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?”
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“No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.”
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“A moment might be a thousand different things.”
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“His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.”
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Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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