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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a35d9e9 | But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. . | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 95f0e2f | I often felt wild back then; I enjoyed the feeling, but nothing had ever come of it. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| ba64d91 | Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 6906556 | The secret to a good life", he told me once, "is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence"." | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| f2c4cc4 | One morning I was bicycling to class when a large flock of Canada geese passed overhead. I couldn't see them, or much of anything else, but I heard the jazzy honking. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| d6e7839 | We sat around our own table, an island of sad reflection in an ocean of merry din. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 3c57f24 | Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom. | pheromones | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 27bfd3f | 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 | ||
| 7c56b65 | When we'd gone to Disneyland, the tree house had been my favorite thing in the whole park. If only I'd had no parents watching my every move, if only I'd been a happy, carefree orphan, I'd have hidden under the player piano until everything closed, and then taken up residence there | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| a895c66 | 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. | dogs | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| f7e1ede | We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore. But | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 8fb8c4a | Je zou maar slecht over hem gaan denken en dat wil ik niet, want dat is mijn taak | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| a0129db | My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 11deae6 | I opened the door to The Graduate and slid into the din. I'd been considering telling Harlow what I'd just learned about chimp sex. Much would depend on how drunk I got. | karen joy fowler | ||
| ae1f65b | 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. Both | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| f694a47 | 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 | ||
| fe410ef | The white culture rewarded cruelty with honor and friendship. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 5af26fc | 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 | ||
| c6025b4 | We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies... | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 4271411 | 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. the value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't; it's Emperor's New Clothes gone global. If chimps used money and we didn't, we wouldn't admire it. We'd find it irrational and primitive. Delusional. And why gold? Chimps barter with meat. The value of meat is self-eviden.. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| b2a03bf | She | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| e97d101 | Besides, it was a high bed. The dogs could never have gotten into it without help. Maybe one could have stood with its front paws on the bed frame while the other scaled its back in some unlikely dachshund Cirque de Soleil, but even then there would be only one dog in her bed, not two. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 17cc252 | Svatko misli o tom kako promijeniti svijet, ali nitko ne misli kako promijeniti sebe. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 68cff97 | Tajna je dobrog zivota u tom da pruzis svoju najbolju utakmicu u svem sto radis. Pa cak i ako bacas smece, to moras izvrsno obaviti. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 0520bba | So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong. | studies | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 60ec20b | My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| e03eb28 | The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 423d031 | The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 5c614f7 | 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 | ||
| 509a13c | 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 | ||
| e80b7f0 | Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen? | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| d4ad9b3 | We call them feelings because we feel them. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 8a8bcc8 | Whatev was the first hand sign I learned at college, but there were several popular then. There was the thumb-and-index-finger L held against the forehead, which meant Loser. The whatev W could be flipped up and down, W to M to W to M, in which case it meant Whatever, your mother works at McDonald's. 'Cause that's the way we rolled back in '92. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 54c0f8f | intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science's excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of genes to make your own animal. Antagonism in my family comes | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| e4565da | The monkey girl had made another unscheduled appearance, and it had landed her in jail again. When would she learn to behave with restraint and decorum? | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| d54dec4 | And this is a small point by comparison, but why do Republicans persist in substituting "Democrat," with its "rat" ending, when "Democratic" would be correct? Because they want us to know, in every word they speak, how much they hold us in contempt. In my lifetime, the Republicans have never accepted a Democratic president as legitimate, no matter how many people vote for him [or her.])" | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| cade179 | I read a postelection blog post by the great Ursula K. Le Guin that said that we should stop using the metaphors of war. We should not think in terms of enemies and battles, because such thoughts, in themselves, change who we are. We need to be like water, she wrote. Water can be "divided and defiled, yet continues to be itself and to always go in the direction it must go." The water metaphor takes me many places. It takes me to the melting.. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| d657c52 | A man at another table accused his breakfast partner of pulling rainbows and unicorns out of her ass. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 9ac5458 | Once, he'd dreamed of experimental fusions, that he would be the one to merge folk harps with anime. Now he saw the incommensurability. In his own words: matter and antimatter. The end of the world. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 3df437b | My brother and sister have led extraordinary lives, but I wasn't there, and I can't tell you that part. I've stuck here to the part I can tell, the part that's mine, and still everything I've said is all about them, a chalk outline around the space where they should have been. Three children, one story. The only reason I'm the one telling it is that I'm the one not currently in a cage. | siblings | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 3010396 | It's true that, as my brother grew larger, he also grew dangerous, same as my sister. But they're still ours and we want them back. They're needed here at home. | siblings | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 25c397a | The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 5c345b7 | Don't side with assholes," she said. Her voice was very not chill." | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 36dba1c | I want a normal girlfriend. Someone restful. You know anyone like that? | Karen Joy Fowler |