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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

She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day. — Karen Thompson Walker

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty. — Karen Thompson Walker

Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom. — Karen Thompson Walker

There are a lot of things about my career now that are as I imagined, hoped for and worked towards. — Karen Walker

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds. — Karen Thompson Walker

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

A single red bucket dangled from a single spoke like the last fruit of summer, or like autumn's final leaf. — Karen Thompson Walker

We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky. — Karen Thompson Walker

Virtually the second I get home, I change into my "home" clothes - yoga pants and a T-shirt. — Karen Walker

Body-con dresses have never been something I've been into. — Karen Walker

Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone? — Karen Thompson Walker

We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles. — Karen Thompson Walker

I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done. — Karen Walker

We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain. — Karen Thompson Walker

Ours was a sudden bond, the kind possible only for the young or the imperiled. — Karen Thompson Walker

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. — Karen Thompson Walker

If you want people to like you you have to buy them things. — Karen Walker

Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble ... that's what I'm in need of. — Karen Walker

But adrenaline, like any other drug, wears off. Panic, like any other flood, must crest. — Karen Thompson Walker

The ideas can come from anywhere; the energy just comes from loving what I do. — Karen Walker

How impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells. — Karen Thompson Walker

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

Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted. — Karen Thompson Walker

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

I'm gonna be so mad when my mood elevators wear off. — Karen Walker

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. — Karen Thompson Walker

I felt an urgency like love. — Karen Thompson Walker

This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man. — Karen Thompson Walker

It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air! — Karen Walker

Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret? — Karen Thompson Walker

I only feel the pressure when we are coming up against a deadline and it's like, actually no we really have to nail this in a week! — Karen Walker

I don't know if I'm all that famous. When I first started my idea of what a career in fashion would look like is very different to the reality now. — Karen Walker

It was the lifeless middle of a bright white night. Our — Karen Thompson Walker

You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product. — Karen Walker

The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself. — Karen Walker

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

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

This was the first of the solar superstorms, triggered — Karen Thompson Walker

We are so excited for what's next. I think that's what I love most about it, the energy and the excitement that comes from that. — Karen Walker

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions. — Karen Thompson Walker

The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky ... "everything else is a choice. — Karen Thompson Walker

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

In this [fashion] business you're living in the future a lot of the time. — Karen Walker

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

They were roundly dismissed as extremists - as if nothing so extreme could possibly be true. — Karen Thompson Walker

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature! — Karen Walker

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

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. — Karen Thompson Walker

Art thrives in times of uncertainty. — Karen Thompson Walker

Something was happening to the earth's magnetic field. — Karen Thompson Walker

I never knew until then that snow made everything quiet, somehow silencing all the world's noise. — Karen Thompson Walker

I always think that fashion isn't just about clothes; it can be applied to anything. — Karen Walker

It did seem amazing, in that moment, that there had ever existed a creature with the power to fly. — Karen Thompson Walker

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

Time moved differently for us that spring: A string of long afternoons was as good as a year. — Karen Thompson Walker

You know, an iPhone is fashion everything is fashion. — Karen Walker

This had become a game of ours. We were serious kids made more so by the times. — Karen Thompson Walker

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

Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat. — Karen Walker

Honey, I'd suck the alcohol out of a deodorant stick! — Karen Walker

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

The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown — Karen Thompson Walker

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. — Karen Thompson Walker

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway. — Karen Thompson Walker

The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7. — Karen Walker

Always take one last look in a full-length mirror before leaving the house. — Karen Walker

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do. — Karen Thompson Walker

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

Don't believe everything you hear, okay? You're a smart girl. You can read between the lines. — Karen Thompson Walker

But most houses in California were built without roots, leaving us trapped above ground with the light. — Karen Thompson Walker

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

But I guess every bygone era takes on a shade of myth. — Karen Thompson Walker

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

I've got drinks piling up on my desk and a stack of pills I haven't even opened yet! — Karen Walker

the day we passed the wheat point. Now it was official: Wheat could no longer grow on this planet without — Karen Thompson Walker

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible. — Karen Thompson Walker

OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips. — Karen Walker

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction. — Karen Thompson Walker

Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words. — Karen Thompson Walker

Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy. — Karen Thompson Walker

Perhaps the reasons for a man to leave his life were too obvious for him to name. — Karen Thompson Walker

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it. — Karen Thompson Walker

My grandfather liked any story in which the unlikely turned out to be true. — Karen Thompson Walker

But the past is long, and the future is short. — Karen Thompson Walker

Antidepressants were swimming in the rivers, and our bloodstreams were just as polluted as the waterways. — Karen Thompson Walker

I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny. — Karen Walker