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I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.

From Jane Hamilton

I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

From Jane Hamilton

'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!

From Jane Hamilton

There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.

From Jane Hamilton