You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.
Karen Joy FowlerWe all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed.
Karen Joy FowlerA man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.
Karen Joy FowlerLots 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 FowlerEvery mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.
Karen Joy Fowler