"Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and……" — Karen Thompson Walker
"Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility."
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38 Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker
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Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when…
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But the past is long, and the future is short.
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I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the…
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Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
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I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back.…
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I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are…
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Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as…
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How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived…
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Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's…
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Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
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