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Jane Hamilton Quotes

It’s all a big old chain. There isn’t one unconnected link Picture Quote #1

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave Picture Quote #1

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer Picture Quote #1

My God has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way Picture Quote #1

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week Picture Quote #1

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can Picture Quote #1

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She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page Picture Quote #1

... 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 Picture Quote #1

I feel like I don’t have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time Picture Quote #1

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged Picture Quote #1

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I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person... I’d forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room Picture Quote #1

There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I thought then about the seasons changing, and in the gray of night I could almost will myself to see the azure sky, the gold of the maple leaves, the crimson of the ripe apples, the hoarfrost on the grass Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one’s burial site Picture Quote #1

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It’s all a big old chain. There isn’t one unconnected link (Jane Hamilton Quotes) Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave. (Jane Hamilton Quotes) This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer. (Jane Hamilton Quotes) My God has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way. (Jane Hamilton Quotes) It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week (Jane Hamilton Quotes) It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can (Jane Hamilton Quotes) She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page (Jane Hamilton Quotes) ... 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 (Jane Hamilton Quotes) I feel like I don’t have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have (Jane Hamilton Quotes) 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 (Jane Hamilton Quotes) Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time (Jane Hamilton Quotes) We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged (Jane Hamilton Quotes) I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person... I’d forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room (Jane Hamilton Quotes) There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I thought then about the seasons changing, and in the gray of night I could almost will myself to see the azure sky, the gold of the maple leaves, the crimson of the ripe apples, the hoarfrost on the grass (Jane Hamilton Quotes) 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 (Jane Hamilton Quotes) In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one’s burial site (Jane Hamilton Quotes)