--- title: "2 Karen E. Bender Quotes - Famous Novelist" description: "American novelist... | Karen E. Bender is an American novelist and short story writer. Browse 2 Karen E. Bender quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b026/author-karen-e-bender-100335.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Karen E. Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b026/author-karen-e-bender-100335.jpg) # Karen E. Bender Novelist **2** quotes in **4** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Karen E. Bender is a novelist. ## Quick Facts About Karen E. Bender Profession Novelist ## About Karen E. Bender American novelist... \| Karen E. Bender is an American novelist and short story writer. ## Quotes by Karen E. Bender > [“It was not their first choice, and they did not know if they would ever feel at home there, but they could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-e-bender/it-was-not-their-first-choice-and-they-did-not-know-if-they-would/) [Karen E. Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-e-bender/) [Childhood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/childhood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e0/karen-e-bender-100335_childhood_it-was-not-their-first-choice-and-they-d_1979420.jpg) > [“We fell together onto the grass. We were velvet and water and arms and lips, and we were no one, and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-e-bender/we-fell-together-onto-the-grass-we-were-velvet-and-water-and-arms-and/) [Karen E. Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-e-bender/) [Darkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/862/karen-e-bender-100335_darkness_we-fell-together-onto-the-grass-we-were_2679154.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-e-bender/#itemlist", "name": "Karen E. Bender Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It was not their first choice, and they did not know if they would ever feel at home there, but they could afford, finally, a small house as well as a car. They had found their own happiness, weighted by resignation: that they were who they were, that they could never truly know the thoughts of another person, that their love was bruised by the carelessness of their own parents (his mother, her father); that they would wander the world in their dreams with ghostly, intangible lovers, that their children would move from adoration of them to fury, that they and their parents would die in different cities, that they would never accomplish anything that would leave any lasting mark on the world. They had longed for this, from the first lonely moment of their childhoods when they realized they could not marry their fathers or mothers, through the burning romanticism of their teens, to the bustling search of their twenties, and there was the faint regret that this tumult and exhaustion was what they had longed for too, and soon it would be gone.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Karen E. 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