It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
Kim EdwardsAway from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
Kim EdwardsThe city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car
Kim EdwardsNorah looked at her sonโs tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and disappear. She had read about people โ where? she could not remember this either โ who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to be not yet of the earth, suspended still between two worlds.
Kim Edwards