Human brain Quote by Karen Joy Fowler

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a…

— Karen Joy Fowler

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

— Karen Joy Fowler

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

— Karen Joy Fowler

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

— Karen Joy Fowler

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

— Karen Joy Fowler

“So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see.…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the…

— 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 (threadbare, ravaged…

— Karen Joy Fowler

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

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater,…

— Karen Joy Fowler

. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation…

— Karen Joy Fowler