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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. — Karen Joy Fowler

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see. — Karen Joy Fowler

My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip. — Karen Joy Fowler

In Chinese, the character for woman was a man on his knees — Karen Joy Fowler

He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out. — Karen Joy Fowler

Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen? — Karen Joy Fowler

Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had. — Karen Joy Fowler

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.' — Karen Joy Fowler

Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions. — Karen Joy Fowler

My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face. — Karen Joy Fowler

Whoever I was before is no one I ever got to know. — Karen Joy Fowler

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader. — Karen Joy Fowler

Out there is South Dakota," Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal. — Karen Joy Fowler

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families. — Karen Joy Fowler

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom. — Karen Joy Fowler

Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not. — Karen Joy Fowler

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. — Karen Joy Fowler

Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I'd thought and I actually had lots of friends. — Karen Joy Fowler

One Mother's Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it. — Karen Joy Fowler

Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking. — Karen Joy Fowler

Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it. — Karen Joy Fowler

We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we're completely beside ourselves. — Karen Joy Fowler

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science — Karen Joy Fowler

The rest of the night was an endless dream sequence directed by David Lynch — Karen Joy Fowler

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. — Karen Joy Fowler

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will. — Karen Joy Fowler

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don't. More stars are always better than less. — Karen Joy Fowler

Solipsism. According to solipsism, reality exists only inside — Karen Joy Fowler

My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher. — Karen Joy Fowler

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them. — Karen Joy Fowler

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. — Karen Joy Fowler

Jocelyn was dumbstruck. She couldn't think of a single thing
she'd done that might give that impression. "I don't. — Karen Joy Fowler

Baby, high school's over.
High school's never over.. — Karen Joy Fowler

But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. — Karen Joy Fowler

You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love. — Karen Joy Fowler

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed. — Karen Joy Fowler

There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened. — Karen Joy Fowler

I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt. — Karen Joy Fowler

Tryptophan: a chemical in turkey meat rumored to make you sleepy and careless. One of the many minefields in the landscape of the family Thanksgiving. — Karen Joy Fowler

Let the wild ruckus commence. — Karen Joy Fowler

I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that. — Karen Joy Fowler

It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean. — Karen Joy Fowler

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. — Karen Joy Fowler

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. — Karen Joy Fowler

All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link. — Karen Joy Fowler

I'm red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes. — Karen Joy Fowler

It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her. — Karen Joy Fowler

Like they say, you never know a person till you've done time with them. — Karen Joy Fowler

My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep. — Karen Joy Fowler

But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it. — Karen Joy Fowler

You can't imagine the white-hot fury someone who can't sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him. — Karen Joy Fowler

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. — Karen Joy Fowler

Airports and train stations are where you get to cry — Karen Joy Fowler

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone — Karen Joy Fowler

When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice. — Karen Joy Fowler

Life is all arrivals and departures. — Karen Joy Fowler

Each of us has a private Austen. — Karen Joy Fowler

If stupid were fuel, we would never run out. — Karen Joy Fowler

The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study. — Karen Joy Fowler

Don't side with assholes, she said. Her voice was very not chill. — Karen Joy Fowler

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. — Karen Joy Fowler

Scully was appallingly gregarious - so outgoing she was practically incoming. — Karen Joy Fowler

Where you succeed will never so much matter as where you fail.
-We Are All Beside Ourselves — Karen Joy Fowler

Ipecac syrup of happiness. There Lowell would be. With Harlow. — Karen Joy Fowler

who knows you better than your own brother? — Karen Joy Fowler

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story. — Karen Joy Fowler

...the world runs on the fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery. — Karen Joy Fowler

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it. — Karen Joy Fowler

It was one of those subjects to which everything that slithers across your brain seems relevant. I find this to be true of most topics. — Karen Joy Fowler

Over the years i've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are. — Karen Joy Fowler

A night that began with mind-reading a grateful crustacean and ended with drunken elves would be a night to remember. — Karen Joy Fowler

There's no data to suggest that I can make you love me whatever I do. — Karen Joy Fowler

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. — Karen Joy Fowler

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't — Karen Joy Fowler

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it. — Karen Joy Fowler

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you. — Karen Joy Fowler

The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind. — Karen Joy Fowler

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem. — Karen Joy Fowler

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it. — Karen Joy Fowler

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. — Karen Joy Fowler

I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all. — Karen Joy Fowler

It was one of her delightful qualities; she wept with those who wept. — Karen Joy Fowler

We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies, — Karen Joy Fowler

We sat around our own table, an island of sad reflection in an ocean of merry din. — Karen Joy Fowler

Apparently, all you needed to be considered normal was no evidence to the contrary. — Karen Joy Fowler

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential - I was torn between the two. — Karen Joy Fowler

Fair warning, as it turned out - kindergarten is all about learning which parts of you are welcome at school and which are not. — Karen Joy Fowler

At twenty-two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself. — Karen Joy Fowler

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. — Karen Joy Fowler

Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field. — Karen Joy Fowler

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it. — Karen Joy Fowler

I am shaking it, popping it, laying it down and working it out — Karen Joy Fowler

But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things. — Karen Joy Fowler

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. — Karen Joy Fowler