Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

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

The dogs came racing up the stairs. They danced at Rima's feet, frantic with the need to communicate something to her. Little Timmy's down the well! Feed us ice cream and potato chips! Sometimes there's a benefit to not sharing a language.

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

We don't choose whom we love,” he told Maura, so gently that she knew he knew. If she wasn't going to be loved in return, she would have liked not to be pitied for it. She got neither of these wishes. “But people have this advantage over swans, to put their unwise loves aside and love another. Not me. I'm too much swan for that.

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.

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.

There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian landscapes of middle school.