213 Quotes by Karen Russell

The past, with its monstrous depth and span, reached toward him, demanding an understanding that he simply could not give it.

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

I do think there’s something when you have an unbroken day, and it feels like you and your attention can just be together like birds again and you can actually think and dream a little.

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

For me, the term “literary fiction” means there’s always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another – bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

I stood with my arms stretched wide and trembling, and I felt as if the black sky was my body and I felt as if the white moon, far above me, unwrinkled and shining, was my mind.

I dropped the candies into the children’s bags, thinking: You small mortals don’t realize the power of your stories.

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there’s a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It’s beautiful.