Quote by Karen Russell Download Open image ““THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!”” — Karen Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Okay, Dumb Diary, school has taught me a few things over the years. Once, it taught me the difference between alligators and crocodiles. (Even… — Jim Benton Copy Share Image
“Boys, the longer you wait to get my requested prehistoric attack dogs, the more chance we have of people we care about getting hurt,… — Gini Koch Copy Share Image
“Little bucktoothed alligator ready to taste my bills. Make something suffer. Make something stick.” — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
“I suspect alligators never get arm-barred; dinosaurs where probably safe from the submission as well, at least the T-rex.” — Mark Johnson Copy Share Image
“A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“You like gator?" "Never touch the stuff. I don't eat anything that could eat me. It screws with the food chain".” — Stephen Randel Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.” — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
“Logs drowse in the pond Dreaming of their heroes Alligator and crocodile” — Vern Rutsala Copy Share Image
Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“ 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 Copy Share Image
“I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I had an ear for languages, and I could read before I could adequately wash myself. I probably could have vied with Jeanette for… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
