Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing, and yet it was difficult to notice and be grateful when one was continually fatigued and irritated. I suppose that unquenchable sense of wonder is what separates us dolts from the saints and the poets.
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when y… - Jane Hamilton
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when y…
- Jane Hamilton
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing, and yet it was diffic… - Jane Hamilton
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing, and yet it was diffic…
There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I … - Jane Hamilton
There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I …
This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer. - Jane Hamilton
This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave. - Jane Hamilton
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.
I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have. - Jane Hamilton
I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.
In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site. - Jane Hamilton
In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. - Jane Hamilton
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places an… - Jane Hamilton
From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places an…
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