"Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of……" — Karen Russell
"Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart."
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Karen Russell
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46 Quotes by Karen Russell
Karen Russell has 46 quotes on this site.
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In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in…
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Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I…
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You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
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I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole…
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Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
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Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another,…
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"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I…
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Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously…
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Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.
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The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.
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It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
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Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk…
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