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

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

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

- Jane Hamilton

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

- Jane Hamilton

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

- 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.

- Jane Hamilton

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

- 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…

- Jane Hamilton