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Karen Russell quotes: It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams. It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
Karen Russell quotes: It's strange to own anything, Beverly thinks, even your flesh, that nobody outside yourself ever touches or sees. It's strange to own anything, Beverly thinks, even your flesh, that nobody outside yourself ever touches or sees.
Karen Russell quotes: The game lasts twenty seconds, tops. You don't want to come all that way and miss the game. The game lasts twenty seconds, tops. You don't want to come all that way and miss the game.
Karen Russell quotes: Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long. Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long.
Karen Russell quotes: Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself. Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.
Karen Russell quotes: We don't have any garlic bulbs, so I bring the cauliflower, and hope that any vampires I encounter will be of the myopic, easily duped variety. We don't have any garlic bulbs, so I bring the cauliflower, and hope that any vampires I encounter will be of the myopic, easily duped variety.
Karen Russell quotes: I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway. I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.
Karen Russell quotes: The lake water was reinventing the forest and the white moon above it, and wolves lapped up the cold reflection of the sky. The lake water was reinventing the forest and the white moon above it, and wolves lapped up the cold reflection of the sky.
Karen Russell quotes: Women revert to their maiden names in Heaven, Rutherford feels fairly certain. He can't remember where he learned thisFrance or the Bible. Women revert to their maiden names in Heaven, Rutherford feels fairly certain. He can't remember where he learned this
France or the Bible.
Karen Russell quotes: She's dead. She's dead. She's dead. She's dead.
Karen Russell quotes: I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory. I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.
Karen Russell quotes: Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify. Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.
Karen Russell quotes: I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies. I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.
Karen Russell quotes: I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate. I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.
Karen Russell quotes: Faith was a power that arose from inside you, I thought, and doubt was exogenous, a speck in your eye. A black mote from the sad world of adults. Faith was a power that arose from inside you, I thought, and doubt was exogenous, a speck in your eye. A black mote from the sad world of adults.
Karen Russell quotes: Many of the presidents have sworn themselves in to similarly foolish titles: Governor of Cow Pastures, Commanding General of Standing Chickens. Many of the presidents have sworn themselves in to similarly foolish titles: Governor of Cow Pastures, Commanding General of Standing Chickens.
Karen Russell quotes: The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops. The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.
Karen Russell quotes: But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again. But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.
Karen Russell quotes: I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips. I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.
Karen Russell quotes: My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary. My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.
Karen Russell quotes: Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature. Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.
Karen Russell quotes: Who is going to pay a day's wage to slide down a damn tongue? The Chief, Swamplandia Who is going to pay a day's wage to slide down a damn tongue?
The Chief, Swamplandia
Karen Russell quotes: The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle. The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.
Karen Russell quotes: I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard. I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard.
Karen Russell quotes: Well, you look weird. New pajamas? Did somebody exhume you last night? Kiwi, Swamplandia! Well, you look weird. New pajamas? Did somebody exhume you last night?
Kiwi, Swamplandia!
Karen Russell quotes: Could we betray our parents by going back to them? Could we betray our parents by going back to them?
Karen Russell quotes: Our mother performed in starlight. Our mother performed in starlight.
Karen Russell quotes: Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness. Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.
Karen Russell quotes: As dizzy as the stars, as near and alone. As dizzy as the stars, as near and alone.
Karen Russell quotes: My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida. My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.
Karen Russell quotes: When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them. When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
Karen Russell quotes: Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear. Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.
Karen Russell quotes: I wanted to touch the edges of my life - the same instinct, I think, that inspires young mortals to flip tractors and enlist in foreign wars. I wanted to touch the edges of my life - the same instinct, I think, that inspires young mortals to flip tractors and enlist in foreign wars.
Karen Russell quotes: It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.
Karen Russell quotes: You can always put balsamic vinaigrette on salted meat and sort of pretend it's a salad. You can always put balsamic vinaigrette on salted meat and sort of pretend it's a salad.
Karen Russell quotes: It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation. It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.
Karen Russell quotes: There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction. There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.
Karen Russell quotes: This new happiness had angles. Happiness like his was real; it had a jewel-cut shadow, and he could lose it. This new happiness had angles. Happiness like his was real; it had a jewel-cut shadow, and he could lose it.
Karen Russell quotes: Nal had begun to sense that his life had jumped the rails - and then right at his nadir, he'd agreed to an "avant" haircut performed by Cousin Steve. Nal had begun to sense that his life had jumped the rails - and then right at his nadir, he'd agreed to an "avant" haircut performed by Cousin Steve.
Karen Russell quotes: For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication. For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.
Karen Russell quotes: My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly. My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.
Karen Russell quotes: Being unconscious with somebody, that's a big deal. Being unconscious with somebody, that's a big deal.
Karen Russell quotes: Words, I guess, are her more durable artifacts. Words, I guess, are her more durable artifacts.
Karen Russell quotes: The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things. The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.
Karen Russell quotes: His words hung around, too, leaving their brain stain on the air. His words hung around, too, leaving their brain stain on the air.
Karen Russell quotes: Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose. Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.
Karen Russell quotes: I didn't realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another - bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave. I didn't realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another - bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.
Karen Russell quotes: I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures. I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.
Karen Russell quotes: the gravity of wound to fist the gravity of wound to fist
Karen Russell quotes: Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices,but because of the silence that is in it. Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices,
but because of the silence that is in it.
Karen Russell quotes: You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu. You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.
Karen Russell quotes: Raffy has this magical, abracadabrical ability to transform all his "ifs" into "whens". Raffy has this magical, abracadabrical ability to transform all his "ifs" into "whens".
Karen Russell quotes: The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.
Karen Russell quotes: But until we are old ladies- a cypress age, a Sawtooth age- I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love. But until we are old ladies- a cypress age, a Sawtooth age- I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.
Karen Russell quotes: How could you make a mistake when you had one option? How could you make a mistake when you had one option?
Karen Russell quotes: I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier. I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
Karen Russell quotes: The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around. The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around.
Karen Russell quotes: What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials. What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.
Karen Russell quotes: (I was a fairy-minded kid, a comic book kid, and I had a bad habit of looking for augurs and protectors where there were none. (I was a fairy-minded kid, a comic book kid, and I had a bad habit of looking for augurs and protectors where there were none.
Karen Russell quotes: I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales. I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.
Karen Russell quotes: We met every morning, still bearded with toast crumbs from our continental breakfasts. We met every morning, still bearded with toast crumbs from our continental breakfasts.
Karen Russell quotes: Whatever song we are making in this place, we are going to die without hearing. Whatever song we are making in this place, we are going to die without hearing.
Karen Russell quotes: It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift. It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.
Karen Russell quotes: If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell. If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.
Karen Russell quotes: I had to explain to him Mom's death, which was always hard to do. It felt like killing her again. I had to explain to him Mom's death, which was always hard to do. It felt like killing her again.
Karen Russell quotes: My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.
Karen Russell quotes: Don't look back, you asshole! he thought. Good advice, from Orpheus to Lot. Don't look back, you asshole! he thought. Good advice, from Orpheus to Lot.
Karen Russell quotes: He tried to scrub children's vomit from the webbing of the Tongue in a way that suggested deep reservoirs of genius. He tried to scrub children's vomit from the webbing of the Tongue in a way that suggested deep reservoirs of genius.
Karen Russell quotes: People are symptoms of dreams People are symptoms of dreams
Karen Russell quotes: Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest. Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
Karen Russell quotes: Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive. Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.
Karen Russell quotes: I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers. I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.
Karen Russell quotes: I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.
Karen Russell quotes: I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs. I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.
Karen Russell quotes: THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU! THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!
Karen Russell quotes: I haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters. I haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters.
Karen Russell quotes: If you're gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird. If you're gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird.
Karen Russell quotes: A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions. A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.
Karen Russell quotes: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories. You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

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