Karen Joy Fowler Quotes
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Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
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In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'
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It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
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Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.
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A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.
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Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.
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Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)
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When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
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There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
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You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.
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Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.
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Each of us has a private Austen.
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You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.
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Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
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Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.
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Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.
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Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
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The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.
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You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.
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The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.
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Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.
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I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.
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No Utopia is Utopia for everyone
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Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.
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I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.
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But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
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When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.
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Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
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Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.
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I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
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