Quotes by : Jane Hamilton

Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.

He thought there must be a place, like a dead-letter office, where everyone's longing went, yearning....

She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been....

I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your....

...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden....

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without....

...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential.....

Wait." Walter went to the basket, taking what was a gray sleeve, drawing it out fro the middle of the....

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I didn't....