01UndatedBecause what could be more Casablanca? Suddenly Harlow saw that what she’d always wanted was a man of principle. A man of action. A domestic terrorist. Every girl’s dream, if she can’t have a vampire. (Chapter four pg 202)Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
02UndatedYou can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
03UndatedA nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying the barley crop and also with ignoring the court order to appear and defend themselves. Bartholomé Chassenée argued successfully that the rats hadn't come because the court had failed to provide reasonable protection from the village cats along the route.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
04UndatedContrary to our metaphors, humans are much more imitative than the other apes. For example: if chimps watch a demonstration on how to get food out of a puzzle box, they, in their turn, skip any unnecessary steps, go straight to the treat. Human children overimitate, reproducing each step regardless of its necessity. There is some reason why, now that it’s our behavior, being slavishly imitative is superior to being thoughtful and efficient, but I forget exactly what that reason is.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
05UndatedOut there is South Dakota," Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
06UndatedWe are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
07UndatedThere 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.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
08UndatedSo 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.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
09UndatedLots 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.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
10UndatedWe 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.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
11UndatedHe envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
12UndatedThe 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.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
13UndatedBut I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
15UndatedLike they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
16UndatedTechnically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.Karen Joy Fowler / quote ↗
