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Category: Kim Edwards

You don’t want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child’s future teacher or your dentist’s father.

Future, Car, Father

‘The Lake of Dreams’ grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

Ideas, Lake, Years

I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It’s a beautiful place, and I drew on my experiences there when writing ‘The Lake of Dreams.’

Beautiful, Sea, Writing

You don’t know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about ‘The Lake of Dreams.’

Great, Book, Know

You’re right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn’t your fault. You can’t spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won’t work. You’ll just end up missing the life you have.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

penmanship, writing-craft

In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.

disillusionment, heartbreak

He’d kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

secrets, silence

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn’t like that. The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.

loneliness, love

The world beyond the water was a blue of green and stone and blue. A moment later Yoshi pushed through, the water pouring down in sheets so smooth it looked like glass, and stepped into the calm [p. 296]

Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don’t try?

effort, potential