Quotes from Karen Joy Fowler

Mother was just as glad to have me out of the house and harm's way. She did give me some advice. You can always tell a cult from a religion, she said, because a cult is just a set of rules that lets certain men get laid.

the world runs on the fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. A

Scientists have solved the problem of solipsism with a strategy called 'inference to the best explanation'. It's a cheap accommodation, and no one is happy about it, with the possible exception of those alien overlords.

Yes, it is. I'm leaving the marriage, I'm not leaving you. As long as you're in the house, I'll take care of the house." "Fuck off," said Sylvia.

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't; it's the Emperors's New Clothes gone global.

The dogs came racing up the stairs. They danced at Rima's feet, frantic with the need to communicate something to her. Little Timmy's down the well! Feed us ice cream and potato chips! Sometimes there's a benefit to not sharing a language.

An election year in the U.S., as if you needed to be reminded, the vituperative tunes of the Ayn Rand Marching Band bleating from the airwaves.

We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore. But

Out there is South Dakota, Kitch had said, Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.

She'd just rear-ended a cop car and she said that only the week before she'd been arrested shoplifting tortillas and salsa for a Sunday afternoon football party at her house. 'This is so not good,' she told me. 'Honestly, I have the worst luck.

He kept his eyes down. He was hiding nothing, but the truth is no servant to man. You can't make someone believe you just by telling the truth any more than you can make the truth false just by not believing it.

of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.

Do onto others as you would have others do unto you' is our highest, most developed morality, Dr. Sosa said. And really the only one necessary; all the others flow from that; you don't need Ten Commandments. But if you do believe, as I do, that morality starts with God, then you have to wonder why He simultanelously hardwired us against it.

You'd think he was a saint," Miss Dixon said. "The way people talk about him. We love dead people. As soon as they die, we start loving them." "Not all of them," said B.J. Miss Dixon looked at him. "Oh, well," she agreed. "Some people are never dead enough.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.

The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look." They

Svatko misli o tom kako promijeniti svijet, ali nitko ne misli kako promijeniti sebe.

I want a normal girlfriend. Someone restful. You know anyone like that? I'd volunteer if you were rich, I told him. Like hugely rich. I could be restful for massive sums of money. Flattered. But no.

Tajna je dobrog života u tom da pružiš svoju najbolju utakmicu u svem što radiš. Pa ?ak i ako bacaš sme?e, to moraš izvrsno obaviti.

I raised the ratio of things I thought to things I said from three to one, to four to one, to five, to six, to seven. I still thought as much as ever, and sometimes I imagined the responses I would have gotten if I had spoken up and what I would have then said next, and so on and so on. Without the release of talking, these thoughts crowded my brain. The inside of my head turned clamorous and outlandish, like the Mos Eisley spaceport bar in Star Wars.

Every exchange contained a lesson, like the pit in a cherry. To this day the Socratic method makes me want to bite someone.

The idea of our own rationality...was convincing to us only because we so wished to be convinced. To any impartial observer, could such a thing exist, the sham was patent. Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.