Girls-raised-by-wolves Quote by Karen Russell

“As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and the Chief…

— Karen Russell

“Once Mom and Ossie and I spent an afternoon alone together in her hospital room. We were watching the small TV above her head…

— Karen Russell

People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.…

— Karen Russell

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

— Karen Russell

“She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at…

— Karen Russell

“At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken…

— Karen Russell

“THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!”

— Karen Russell

“ Forever , just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math, right? Such terrifying math.”

— Karen Russell

“I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.”

— Karen Russell

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books…

— Karen Russell

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

— Karen Russell

“I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.”

— Karen Russell