Vivid-description Quote by Karen Thompson Walker Download Open image ““She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.”” — Karen Thompson Walker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Vivid-description
“I hoped she would never lock her smile away, and forget where she'd put the key.” — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
“The key was in his hand, but she found a way to unlock herself.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“She shoved her hand in her pocket and realized she had forgotten her key. Crappers! She couldn't go back home now.” — Paige Ray Copy Share Image
“If she were to get her key back, she thought, no one but her would ever touch it. She would wind herself well in… — Ekaterina Sedia Copy Share Image
“It was like she’d pulled curtains over her eyes. That smile: a locked door. And I didn’t know what words were the key.” — Jilly Gagnon Copy Share Image
“It’s just that mess seems to follow her. She can enter a room and within minutes has laid her keys in one place, her… — Cass Green Copy Share Image
“I see.” Her troubled gaze focused on the lock. “And the key would be ... ?” “Gone,” he said. “Lost years ago. Not that… — Patricia Coughlin Copy Share Image
“Living with thieves, it would be a matter of moments before they picked the lock, but she certainly was not going to make it… — M.L. Chesley Copy Share Image
“The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I turn the key and I turn the key and I turn the key and she doesn't do a damn thing.” — Rachel Cohn 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, those pockets of gray beneath her lower lashes were new. She still wasn't sleeping well, but perhaps what I was seeing was just age, a gradual shift that I'd failed to register. I sometimes felt the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
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
“I liked the idea, how the past could be preserved, fossilized, in the stars. I wanted to think that somewhere on the other end… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“how impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Jewell Stewark smiled at me from a billboard, the rain giving her face tears.” — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
