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“That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.”
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“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
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Kim Edwards
“Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.”
Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Kim Edwards
“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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Kim Edwards
“Anything can happen. But what goes wrong isn’t your fault. 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, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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