Karen Joy Fowler

“Threadbare, ravaged by love – as who amongst us is not.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“If stupid were fuel, we would never run out.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

— Karen Joy Fowler

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Life is all arrivals and departures.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The value of money is a scam perpetuated by those who have it over those who don't.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Jocelyn was dumbstruck. She couldn’t think of a single thing she’d done that might give that impression. “I don’t.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

— Karen Joy Fowler

“He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Je zou maar slecht over hem gaan denken en dat wil ik niet, want dat is mijn taak”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Scully was appallingly gregarious—so outgoing she was practically incoming.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“A night that began with mind-reading a grateful crustacean and ended with drunken elves would be a night to remember.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The secret to a good life, he once told me, 'is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if…

— Karen Joy Fowler

You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“You know how everything seems so normal when you’re growing up,” she asked plaintively, “and then comes this moment when you realize…

— Karen Joy Fowler

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“An election year in the U.S., as if you needed to be reminded, the vituperative tunes of the Ayn Rand Marching Band…

— Karen Joy Fowler

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

“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

“They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I’d left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Up on the Magdalen Islands, eight crew members from the Sea Shepherd sprayed more than a thousand seal pups with a harmless…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Besides, it was a high bed. The dogs could never have gotten into it without help. Maybe one could have stood with…

— Karen Joy Fowler

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

“In 2004, Jacques Derrida said that a change was under way. Torture damages the inflicter as well as the inflicted. It’s no…

— Karen Joy Fowler

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique--our featherless bipedality, our…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“No one would have liked that. Maybe I liked it even less. Here we go again, I said to myself. I said…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“What chimps don’t seem capable of understanding is the state of false belief. They don’t have a theory of mind that accounts…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The white culture rewarded cruelty with honor and friendship.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The rest of the night was an endless dream sequence directed by David Lynch”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“...the world runs on the fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

— Karen Joy Fowler

“WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail,” I said.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

— Karen Joy Fowler

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Where you succeed will never so much matter as where you fail." -We Are All Beside Ourselves”

— Karen Joy Fowler

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

— Karen Joy Fowler