Karen Thompson Walker

“I felt an urgency like love.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“And as with any harsh journey, not everything survived.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Art thrives in times of uncertainty.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end”

— Karen Thompson Walker

But the past is long, and the future is short.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“But I guess every bygone era takes on a shade of myth.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Végtelenül magányosnak tűnt, mint a messzi-messzi csillagok, amelyeket még látunk, pedig már nincsenek is ott.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Ours was a sudden bond, the kind possible only for the young or the imperiled.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?

— Karen Thompson Walker

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“I had grown into a worrier, a girl on constant guard for catastrophes large and small, for the disappointments I now sensed…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“So much that seems harmless in daylight turns imposing in the dark. What else, you had to wonder, was only a trick…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“What I understood so far about this life was there were the bullies and the bullied, the hunters and the hunted, the…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I…

— Karen Thompson Walker

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an…

— Karen Thompson Walker

This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Maybe it had begun to happen before the slowing, but it was only afterward that I realized it: My friendships were disintegrating.…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Something similar had happened once to the bees. This was only a few years before the slowing began. Millions of honeybees had…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“What went on in that head of his? I would soon come to understand that he gave voice to only a fraction…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“It was that time of life: Talents were rising to the surface, weaknesses were beginning to show through, we were finding out…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Seth and I used to like to picture how our world would look to visitors someday, maybe a thousand years in the…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Ezek közt a valószínűleg soha fel nem fedezett dolgok között – mert mind szétporladnak még jóval azelőtt, hogy bárki bárhonnan ideérhetne –…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Elértük azt az életszakaszt, mikor a tehetség lassan a felszínre tör, de már a gyengeségeink is megmutatkoznak, és egyre jobban kezdett látszani,…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“But doesn't every precious era feel like fiction once it's gone? After a while, certain vestigial sayings are all that remain. Decades…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Volt valami a levegőben. Mintha lelassult volna az ítélőképességünk is, lazultak volna a gátlásaink. Pedig én mindig úgy gondoltam, hogy pont az…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“After the slowing, every action required a little more force than it used to. The physics had changed. Take, for example, the…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“...what is done can sometimes be undone.”

— Karen Thompson Walker