Quotes from Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Killing time takes practice.

Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

Great men are not always idiots

All phone calls are obscene.

She wrapped herself up in an enigma; there was no other way to keep warm.

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

She wrapper herself in an enigma, there was no other way to keep warm.

Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: 'they' does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

Learning is less than a curse than a distraction.

In direct address, a noun names the person (or the dog) being spoken to.

He is my solace although he is also my pain.

Those who are meek shall inherit this earth; the ugly ones shall have their cake and munch on it, too.

We put our best feet forward and crushed each other's toes.

Let's you and me get together and do away with some of the possibilities.

The twenty years you inflicted on me were the juiciest years of my life.

If this is love, I've made a terrible mistake.

One way to find a sweetheart is to put an ad in the paper, another is to wait and see what the cat drags in.

She darkened his door, he lit her fire, they both burned.

They supposed that, even if they melted down all the calendars and smashed all the clocks, one minute would daftly follow another until some final cure were found for the malady of Time.

When you become a streetwalker, you don't write home very much.

Flee while there is still time and then stop to catch your last breath.