Kimberley Freeman > Quotes

“There are two types of women in the world, Beattie, those who do things and those who have things done to them.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Wildflower Hill

“She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Wildflower Hill

“Expectations are the enemy of happiness.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“Kindness is all we have to give others”
― Kimberley Freeman, Wildflower Hill

“But the worst mistake we can make about old people is to forget they were young once.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Wildflower Hill

“Once you've read a book, you and it belong to each other for life. ...”
― Kimberley Freeman, Wildflower Hill

“Perhaps that was the reason she felt so hemmed in. Islands were places in between; places neither here nor there, but rather places on the way somewhere. That was how she felt. Not settled.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“He seemed to her in that moment as he had always seemed: a stranger right beside her, somebody she knew well but didn’t know at all.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Wildflower Hill

“Do we honor the past by projecting ourselves forward into the future? By carrying on genes and traits and family stories?”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“down to mop up the water with the dress she”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“Henry pushed his chair back quickly. He”
― Kimberley Freeman, Wildflower Hill

“He had become entwined with my memory of that experience, that deep and thrilling moment.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“But we will never be free of each other, you and I. You grew inside me and came from my body, your heartbeat depended on my heartbeat. And when you were born, I needed you as much as you needed me. No matter what happens, that bond cannot be undone.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Wildflower Hill

“It is terrible to lose a loved one... Such sadness doesn't just bruise, then fade away. It devastates. The only way back is to rebuild, stone by stone. And sometimes one hasn't the energy, or the inclination, and one sits among the ruins and waits for something to change. But nothing changes unless we stand up again, and keep picking up the stones.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Lighthouse Bay

“Love is love wherever you find it, and nobody should be censured for it.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Evergreen Falls

“a slowly eroding hope in her heart. Travelers”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“business. ‘Come,’ she said. ‘Up.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Ember Island

“me when you’re engaged? When you’re married?’ Liberty asks lightly, but I sense there is”
― Kimberley Freeman, The Engagement Party

“Sofi watched them, fascinated as always by”
― Kimberley Freeman, Gold Dust