Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Edwards

She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.

Kim Edwards

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

Kim Edwards

He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.

Kim Edwards

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

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

Kim Edwards

Either things grow and change or they die.

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

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.

Kim Edwards

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

Kim Edwards

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.

Kim Edwards

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

Kim Edwards

He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.

Kim Edwards

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

Kim Edwards

He had never even glimpsed her.

Kim Harrison

Pierce jerked his hand from Trent and pushed himself straight. “Kalamack Industries,” he said, expression twisted as he wiped his hand on his pants. “I knew your father.” “I do not freaking believe this,” I said, shifting to stand where I could see both of them. Al beamed. “Amazing who you can meet in an elevator.

Kim Harrison

He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

Ken Venturi

My father was a man of few words.

Ken Venturi

My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

Ken Venturi

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

Kazuo Ishiguro

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

Kazuo Ishiguro

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

Kresley Cole

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

Kris Allen

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.

Oprah Winfrey

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

Oliver Hudson

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

Oliver Hudson

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

Margaret Atwood

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

Margaret Atwood

I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.

Margaret Atwood

I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.

Marcus Samuelsson

One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

Marcel Pagnol

I was terrified that the wild boar might be attacking my father, and so I prayed to God - if he existed - to protect him and to direct the boar against my uncle instead, who believed in heaven, and therefore was more willing to die.