120 Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker

Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown

As strange as the new days seemed to us at first, the old days would come to feel very quickly the stranger.

She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.

how impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells.

Sometimes death is a proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. We were young and we were hungry. We were strong and and growing stronger, so healthy we were bursting.

The only thing you have to do in this life is die. Everything else is a choice.

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.