Quotes by : Jane Hamilton

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

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....

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

Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.

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

Emma, Emma, Emma," I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her....

He wondered if somewhere far off, defying the laws of science, Mitch's two screams were still echoing,....

I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error,....

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....