Karen Joy Fowler Quotes - Page 2

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

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

You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.

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.)

We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed.

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.

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.

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

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.

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

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

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)

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.