Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.

- Karen Russell

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

- Karen Russell

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

- Karen Russell

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

- Karen Russell

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

- Karen Russell

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

- Karen Russell

A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely…

- Karen Russell

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

- Karen Russell

Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoe…

- Karen Russell