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“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, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“Paul, careening down the slide with his arms out flung, and Phoebe, present somehow through her absence.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Short on money, long on hope”
― Kim Edwards