120 Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker

I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.

Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?

Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.