“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
―
Kim Edwards,
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“To be honest, it was pretty hard to leave. I desperately wanted to turn around, and tell him everything would be okay. That I adore him and I trust him and that I'll stand by him while he goes through this tough time. But I'm just too tired. I'm thirty years old. I'm tired of relationships that are always painful. I'm tired of hurting. I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“A moment might be a thousand different things.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Either things grow and change or they die.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“There should be a phone service that turns off your phone between midnight and six A.M. every night. And if you want to make a call, you have to pick up the phone and talk to an operator: Put me through to AAA. My car battery's dead. Yes, ma'am. Put me through to Pink Dot. I need vanilla Häagen-Dazs toute de suite! Yes, ma'am. Put me through to my ex-boyfriend... I'm sorry, ma'am, the operator would say. That would be a bad idea. Now you go to bed before you do anything stupid.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“To be honest, it was pretty hard to leave. I desperately wanted to turn around, and tell him everything would be okay. That I adore him and I trust him and that I'll stand by him while he goes through this tough time. But I'm just too tired. I'm thirty years old. I'm tired of relationships that are always painful. I'm tired of hurting. I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“A moment might be a thousand different things.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Either things grow and change or they die.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“There should be a phone service that turns off your phone between midnight and six A.M. every night. And if you want to make a call, you have to pick up the phone and talk to an operator: Put me through to AAA. My car battery's dead. Yes, ma'am. Put me through to Pink Dot. I need vanilla Häagen-Dazs toute de suite! Yes, ma'am. Put me through to my ex-boyfriend... I'm sorry, ma'am, the operator would say. That would be a bad idea. Now you go to bed before you do anything stupid.” ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
“Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.” ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
