The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least… — Mary Karr Body Copy Share Image
“At some point the talk got heated, and Paolo called Mother a strumpet, for which Daddy was said to have stomped a… — Mary Karr Parenting Copy Share Image
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all… — Mary Karr Adolescence Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway.… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing… — Mary Karr Body Copy Share Image
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,” as if it were some stray… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned… — Mary Karr Fun Copy Share Image
