"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Later I had to raise the baby rats she ate, and why I thought one creature was my beloved pet while the… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I'd love to meet Flannery O'Connor. I think I'd be content to hear her speak on any subject. What forces shaped her.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences; Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“If Sawtooth could put words to the brambled knot forming in his throat, he would tell her: Girl, don't go. I am… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I also love animals, and I worked at a veterinary clinic for a while, but it turns out that loving animals and… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“But in fact I was like Ossie, in this one regard: I was consumed by a helpless, often furious love for a… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“But until we are old ladies- a cypress age, a Sawtooth age- I will continue to link arms with her, in public,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and the Chief… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Once Mom and Ossie and I spent an afternoon alone together in her hospital room. We were watching the small TV above her head… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“ Forever , just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math, right? Such terrifying math.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
