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Karen Thompson Walker quotes: As strange as the new days seemed to us at first, the old days would come to feel very quickly the stranger. As strange as the new days seemed to us at first, the old days would come to feel very quickly the stranger.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day. She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty. It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom. Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds. In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: A single red bucket dangled from a single spoke like the last fruit of summer, or like autumn's final leaf. A single red bucket dangled from a single spoke like the last fruit of summer, or like autumn's final leaf.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky. We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone? Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles. We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain. We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Ours was a sudden bond, the kind possible only for the young or the imperiled. Ours was a sudden bond, the kind possible only for the young or the imperiled.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: But adrenaline, like any other drug, wears off. Panic, like any other flood, must crest. But adrenaline, like any other drug, wears off. Panic, like any other flood, must crest.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: How impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells. How impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write. I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted. Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: One by one, the minutes poured in - and even a trickle, as we have come to understand, can eventually add up to a flood. One by one, the minutes poured in - and even a trickle, as we have come to understand, can eventually add up to a flood.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: I felt an urgency like love. I felt an urgency like love.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man. This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret? Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones you don't expect at all. I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones you don't expect at all.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: It was the lifeless middle of a bright white night. Our It was the lifeless middle of a bright white night. Our
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: They were roundly dismissed as extremists - as if nothing so extreme could possibly be true. They were roundly dismissed as extremists - as if nothing so extreme could possibly be true.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message. I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: She looked lonely through the lens of my telescope, like one of those faraway stars, still visible to our eyes but no longer really there. She looked lonely through the lens of my telescope, like one of those faraway stars, still visible to our eyes but no longer really there.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions. I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: This was the first of the solar superstorms, triggered This was the first of the solar superstorms, triggered
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky ... "everything else is a choice. The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky ... "everything else is a choice.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life. I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: I never knew until then that snow made everything quiet, somehow silencing all the world's noise. I never knew until then that snow made everything quiet, somehow silencing all the world's noise.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Antidepressants were swimming in the rivers, and our bloodstreams were just as polluted as the waterways. Antidepressants were swimming in the rivers, and our bloodstreams were just as polluted as the waterways.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: So much that seems harmless in daylight turns imposing in the dark. What else, you had to wonder, was only a trick of light? So much that seems harmless in daylight turns imposing in the dark. What else, you had to wonder, was only a trick of light?
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Art thrives in times of uncertainty. Art thrives in times of uncertainty.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Something was happening to the earth's magnetic field. Something was happening to the earth's magnetic field.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: It did seem amazing, in that moment, that there had ever existed a creature with the power to fly. It did seem amazing, in that moment, that there had ever existed a creature with the power to fly.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: It was a rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything survived. It was a rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything survived.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Time moved differently for us that spring: A string of long afternoons was as good as a year. Time moved differently for us that spring: A string of long afternoons was as good as a year.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: This had become a game of ours. We were serious kids made more so by the times. This had become a game of ours. We were serious kids made more so by the times.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: I think we lost something else when we lost that crisp rhythm, some general shared belief that we could count on certain things. I think we lost something else when we lost that crisp rhythm, some general shared belief that we could count on certain things.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible. My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Don't believe everything you hear, okay? You're a smart girl. You can read between the lines. Don't believe everything you hear, okay? You're a smart girl. You can read between the lines.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next? Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: But most houses in California were built without roots, leaving us trapped above ground with the light. But most houses in California were built without roots, leaving us trapped above ground with the light.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway. Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: the day we passed the wheat point. Now it was official: Wheat could no longer grow on this planet without the day we passed the wheat point. Now it was official: Wheat could no longer grow on this planet without
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing. Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do. Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Perhaps the reasons for a man to leave his life were too obvious for him to name. Perhaps the reasons for a man to leave his life were too obvious for him to name.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not loveit's relief. Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love
it's relief.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: But I guess every bygone era takes on a shade of myth. But I guess every bygone era takes on a shade of myth.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: But the past is long, and the future is short. But the past is long, and the future is short.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction. It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words. Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy. Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it. If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
Karen Thompson Walker quotes: My grandfather liked any story in which the unlikely turned out to be true. My grandfather liked any story in which the unlikely turned out to be true.

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