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Author - Jane Hamilton
Quotes by : Jane Hamilton
existentialism
Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.
longing
He thought there must be a place, like a dead-letter office, where everyone's longing went, yearning....
unrequited love
She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been....
pain
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden....
books
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without....
memory
Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.
self
...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential.....
parenthood
Emma, Emma, Emma," I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her....
science
He wondered if somewhere far off, defying the laws of science, Mitch's two screams were still echoing,....
lost
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....
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