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....

...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....

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

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,....

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....