All Mary Karr Quotes
- The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. Character
- The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the… Among
- Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild... Breeds
- A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. Any
- I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator,… All
- Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those… Believe
- The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine… All
- In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said. Came
- Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear… All
- The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water. Character
- If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a… Banal
- But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can… Been
- For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough. Inspirational
- There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go… Bottom
- How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards. Car
- Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there… Any
- I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over… Assemble
- I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can… All
- Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than… Call
- He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated. Funny
- Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in… Air
- Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you… Drape
- The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating. Audiobooks
- Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually… Based
- I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves. Adult