When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself. - Karen Russell
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
My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.
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
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…
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
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.
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
Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest. - Karen Russell
Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories. - Karen Russell
You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams. - Karen Russell
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
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
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…
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