Quotes by : Jane Hamilton

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....

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.....

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,....

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

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