Kim Edwards Quotes

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love- nothing, now, but bones.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul-the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]

After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?

All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.