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“Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.”

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Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

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The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

This novel delves into the complex relationship between a doctor and his deaf daughter, as he grapples with the moral implications of his actions. The story unfolds through a series of letters, revealing the profound impact of one family's choices on their lives and those around them. more

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Kim Edwards, born on May 4, 1958, is an American author known for her profound character development and emotional expression in her works, which primarily focus on women's lives and family relationships. more

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“Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.”

Ifs Past Creation Mirrors Invention Loved Ones Plato

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“...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.”

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Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

“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.”

World Kind Moments Body Hands Film Father Water Blood Drink Bed Bones Flesh Sat Capture Orange Fleeting Stairs Unified Aspirin Rare Moments

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“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.”

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Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

“A moment might be a thousand different things.”

Different Moments Might Father Thousand Different Things

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Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

“literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.”

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Book:God's Silence

Source: God's Silence

“...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.”

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Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”

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Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

“He had never even glimpsed her.”

Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

“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.”

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Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter