“ Wait. Walter went to the basket, taking what was a gray sleeve, drawing it out fro the middle of the heap. Oh, He said. He held the shapeless wool sweater to his chest. Joyce had knit for months the y… Jane Hamilton
“ She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. Jane Hamilton
“ He wondered if somewhere far off, defying the laws of science, Mitch's two screams were still echoing, if those vibrations had traveled into space, if they moved on and on like rays in a light-year. T… Jane Hamilton
“ ...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 th… Jane Hamilton
“ Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped. Jane Hamilton
“ I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that 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 sho… Jane Hamilton
“ Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world. Jane Hamilton
“ In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility. Jane Hamilton
“ She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt. Jane Hamilton
“ I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it. Jane Hamilton
“ Emma, Emma, Emma, I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride. Jane Hamilton
“ 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
“ I knew that we were two humans, that's all, two humans walking around blindly in the night, looking for a warm hand. Jane Hamilton
“ Still, 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
“ In May, when the grass was so green it hurt to look at it, the air so overpoweringly sweet you had to go in and turn on the television just to dull your senses- that's when Claire knew it was time to… Jane Hamilton
“ 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… Jane Hamilton
“ It must be strange to keep your strong mind in a body that grows older and weaker and no longer resembles your own image of yourself. Jane Hamilton
