Life Quote by Karen Thompson Walker Download Open image ““ . . . perhaps the reasons for a man to leave his life were too obvious for him to name.”” — Karen Thompson Walker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Leave Life Life Life Obvious Man Leave Obvious Reasons Man
“The world's full of men like him. They just have different names, different reasons to hurt folks.” — DiAnn Mills Copy Share Image
“This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“He was such a throwaway thing of no importance, and yet he existed and would make that existence worthwhile.” — Glyn Iliffe Copy Share Image
“He left everything he knew behind. Not because life was too short. But because when you lived it alone, it was too damn long.” — R.G. Alexander Copy Share Image
“...through every scenario I could think of. But I never thought that he would be the one to leave me. I never thought being… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I loved him, and no matter what my reasons were to live without him, I knew it wasn’t what I wanted.” — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“I need to leave, and I need to leave him here and to get on with his life with someone who can actually appreciate… — Nicole Tetterton Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Months later, Michaela's mother would spread a star chart before us and explain to me that the slowing had shifted everyone's astrological signs. Fortunes… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“I'd grown up hearing stories about the special hazards that girls faced. I knew where the bodies were found: naked on beaches or cut… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Of all the strange phenomena that befell us that year, maybe nothing surprised me more than the sound of that small question rolling out… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“I could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely,… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image