"The Memory Keeper's Daughter" Quotes
"The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards tells the story of a father's life-altering decision to secretly send his newborn daughter with Down syndrome to an institution, and the impact of this secret on his family over decades.
fiction | 401 pages | Published in 2005
Quotes
You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.
Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay.
Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.
In some deep place, beneath the surface, the truth still existed, and every day, she fought to keep it buried.
The past was like a presence, always with her.
There is sorrow enough in the natural way, from men and women to fill our day.
You make a choice, and in the instant that you choose, you are no longer the same person you were before.
Life could only be understood backward, but it had to be lived forward.
Every choice you make, every decision, it's like you're building your own house.
The world was full of beauty, and she wanted to capture it all, to photograph every single image.
