Memory Keeper Quotes

#1. I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's all you can ever do as a writer. From there on you have no control over it.

Kim Edwards

#2. The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know.

Kim Edwards

#3. There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

Kim Edwards

#4. After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

Kim Edwards

#5. I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.

Kim Edwards

#6. Children are like fingers. No matter which finger you bite, it hurts.

Choi Woo-shik

#7. We hold one another close in this, our last moment and kiss. Your goodbye is in our lips, good luck wishes shine in those robin's egg blue eyes.

J.D. Holiday

#8. People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

Wilbur Smith

#9. Now he knew ... that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.

Susan Vreeland

#10. Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

Rumi

#11. Every character I've played is like family to me.

Beth Grant

#12. So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend ...

Ben Harper

#14. My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

George Foreman

#15. It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia's mother - the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be.

Kimberly McCreight

#16. Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

Mark Lawrenson

#17. My heart sank when I read the simple, "This is killing me." It was killing me too, this time apart.

Claire Contreras

#18. Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.

Adrian Rogers

#20. Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

Rollo May

#21. It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.

Patricia Schroeder