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“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Photography #Father #Secret
“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

#Missing #Trying #Disaster
“...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

#Lonely #Giving #Renewal
“A moment might be a thousand different things.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Different #Might
“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

#Eye #World #East
“Norah looked at her sonâ€™s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and disappear. She had read about people â€“ where? she could not remember this either â€“ who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to be not yet of the earth, suspended still between two worlds.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Children #Father #Son
“Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Fall #Air
“...bleak territory of the heart.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Heart #Territory #Bleak
“The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Moon #Familiar
“Either things grow and change or they die.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Grows
“So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #New Life #Today
“Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Eggs #World
“They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.”
-- Kim Edwards

#World #Questioning #Distracted
“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

#Father #Addiction #Darkness
“Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Twins #Excitement
“Short on money, long on hope”
-- Kim Edwards

#Long
“...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

#Distance #Space #Caverns
“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

#Father #Blood #Hands
“This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Fighting #World #Sometimes
“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Heartache #Joy
“He had never even glimpsed her.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father
“That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Other Worlds #Imagination
“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

#Father #Airplane #Thinking
“I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #People #Trying
“She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Moving #Exotic
“He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own, this girl who had decided yes, a brief moment of release in the back of a car, in the room of a silent house, this girl who had stood up later, adjusting her clothes, with now knowledge of how that moment was already shaping her life.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Girl #Daughter #Father
“It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Different
“Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Grief
“But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.”
-- Kim Edwards

#Father #Ordinary #Saws
“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

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