Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamiltonis an American novelist...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 July 1957
giving way laissez-faire
My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.
running way phantoms
This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.
grateful knowing miracle
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing, and yet it was difficult to notice and be grateful when one was continually fatigued and irritated. I suppose that unquenchable sense of wonder is what separates us dolts from the saints and the poets.
earth graves difficult
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.
education book keys
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
people needs wronged
We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.
hurt thinking two
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose your stomach or hurt yourself in the landing. You don't necessarily sense the motion. I've found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the truth once, and then again, and one more time, and there you are, feeling, for a moment, that it was sudden, your arrival at the bottom of the heap.
memories believe past
From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.
book anchors might
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
ingredients feels persons
I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.
pain grief grieving
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.
backyard bathroom cannot ditch front full halfway hour house looks smell time
After about one hour of rain, the drainage ditch in the front of the house is so full it is halfway up the front yard. The backyard looks like a lake. We are on septic and every time it rains, you cannot use the bathroom facilities, and the smell of septic is very strong.
easiest natural seemed web
The easiest thing was a Web site. It just seemed the natural thing to do.
afternoon homework main music phoenix program skate teens
The main thing the Phoenix does is have an open-door afternoon program for teens to come and play music and do homework and skate and socialize, a place to be off the streets.