Quotes by Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton

…you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help… And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.

Grief

Grieving

Pain

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 and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.

Believe

Memories

Past

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

Feels

Ingredients

Persons

I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person…I’d forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.

Blood

Moving

Strong

I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn’t learned that it can happen so gradually you don’t lose your stomach or hurt yourself in the landing. You don’t necessarily sense the motion. I’ve found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the truth once, and then again, and one more time, and there you are, feeling, for a moment, that it was sudden, your arrival at the bottom of the heap.

Hurt

Thinking

Two

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

Determination

Ends

Marriage

Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old love because it’s so-intricate. Perhaps there is another name for it, one we don’t yet know. I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you’d look at your skin and say Water, you would also wake in the morning and say Love. But it has been underneath, this new and old thing I feel, subterranean, silent and steady, like blood, rushing along and along without often making itself known.

Fall

Morning

Rain

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

Days Off

Nature

Week

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.

Book

Education

Keys

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

Forgiving

Strong

Weaving

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Difficult

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Ends

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Forgiving

Giving

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Graves

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Grieving

Heart

Hurt

Impossible

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Kind

Knowing

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Quotes by Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton

…you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help… And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.

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 and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.

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.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

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