Karen Joy Fowler Quotes
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.
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.
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.
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.
Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.
I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.
You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.
I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)
A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.
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.)
You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.
Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.
There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.
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.
In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'
I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?
I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.
who knows you better than your own brother?
Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.
We call them feelings because we feel them.
We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.
An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.
I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.
Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.
Out there is South Dakota, " Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.
We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.
So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.
But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.
Like they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them.
Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.