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The Lake of Dreams
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The Lake of Dreams (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Kim Edwards (Author) (edit contributors)

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At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as... read more

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  • “For me, that's the power of the stories--that you can't quantify them. That they keep opening up and revealing something new.”
    Lucy Jarrett
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  • For this is what I have learned, in my short life: do not act out of anger. Act from love, or not at all.
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  • Forgiveness is at the heart of the church, God’s forgiveness and love, and whatever mistakes she made—whatever mistakes we all make—they don’t cut us off from life, or from a spiritual life, unless we choose to let them.”
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  • “What is it you plan to do / With your one wild and precious life?” What indeed?
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  • This is what I used to think, that some people were simply good and others were not, and that I, of course, was good. But now I think instead that evil is a force in the world, a force that seeks, and it finds its way into our lives through anger and loss, through sadness and betrayal, like mold on bread, like rot on an apple, it takes hold.
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  • Westrum, Frank, 1868-1942 Westrum, Beatrice Mansfield, 1873-1919 Jarrett, Cora, 1887-1958 Jarrett, Joseph, 1894-1972 Jarrett, Rose, 1895-???? Jarrett, Iris, born 1911 Suffrage March in Washington, 1913 Suffrage March, The Lake of Dreams, 1914 Dream Master founded, 1919 Womens suffrage granted, 1920 Iris leaving, 1925 My grandfather born, 1925 Windows finished, 1938 Depot built, chapel closed, 1940 Arthur born, 1952 My father born, 1953
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  • Maybe evil, that old-fashioned word, could be called other things, disharmony or dysfunction. Maybe Rose was right and evil wasn’t attached to an individual as much as it was a force in the world, a seeking force, one that worked like a self-replicating virus, seeking to entangle, to ensnare, to undo beauty.
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  • “We come into the world alone, unlike all who have gone before us. . . . Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”
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  • I’ve learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.
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  • You live here, the stories all said, but you are filled with the breath of the Divine, and the world in your care is full of amazements.
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  • Rose’s words: Do not act out of anger. Act from love, or not at all.
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Although it is nearly midnight, an unusual light slips through a crack in the wool, brushing her arm like the feathers of a wing.

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  1. Kim Edwards (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking Adult
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 4, 2011
ISBN: 0670022179
Page Count: 400

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