181 Quotes by Karen Joy Fowler

"Like they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them."

"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."

"You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him."

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

"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 dont; it's the Emperor's New Clothes gone global."

"We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves."

"who knows you better than your own brother?"

"An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two."

"Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you."

"I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back."