Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell. Kim Edwards More Quotes by Kim Edwards More Quotes From Kim Edwards 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 rest-of-your-life missing trying A moment might be a thousand different things. Kim Edwards different might father He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts. Kim Edwards airplane father thinking Either things grow and change or they die. Kim Edwards dies grows father ...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 filled-up lonely giving ...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood. Kim Edwards caverns distance space That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him. Kim Edwards other-worlds imagination father It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started. Kim Edwards ends father lying A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion. Kim Edwards alchemist father years Grief, it seemed, was a physical place. Kim Edwards grief father Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else. Kim Edwards pulse father world It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you. Kim Edwards father fall 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 silence secret Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. Kim Edwards eggs father world 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. Kim Edwards sunny-afternoon east eye I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up cases. Kim Edwards taken children thinking He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart. Kim Edwards rays vision heart Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community. Kim Edwards woven community understanding Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried. Kim Edwards library circles people Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create. Kim Edwards things-you-can-control impossible writing
