Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Mother was just as glad to have me out of the house and harm’s way. She did give me some advice. You… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep.” — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.” — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“The next day I lay out on the grass in our backyard and I looked straight into the sun, the way my… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Grandma Donna passed the oyster stuffing and asked my father straight out what he was working on, it being so obvious his… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“My father was himself a college professor and a pedant to the bone. Every exchange contained a lesson, like the pit in… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see. — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science’s excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“What should we read next?” Bernadette asked. “Pride and Prejudice is my favorite. So let’s do that,” Sylvia said. Are you sure,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“There are moments in history that seem like a mist, as if what really happens matters less that what should have happened.… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less. — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Je zou maar slecht over hem gaan denken en dat wil ik niet, want dat is mijn taak” — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“The secret to a good life,” he told me once, “is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you’re… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see.… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I’d left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin (threadbare, ravaged… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
