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There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru's saw. My father--my real father--is a limb that got axed off the family tree a long time ago now. My mother coughs and cleans phantom juices off her silver with a cloth doily. My sisters clench their knives.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell 198 199 Family Fathers Sisters

I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell Children Halloween Vampires

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell Children Future Parenthood

Even if she’d [Ossie] gotten away from him [her ghost fiancé] the prognostications were grim—alligators with unusual pigmentation can’t camouflage themselves in the dust-and-olive palette of the swamp. Their skin is spotlit for predators. That’s why you don’t see albino Seths [Ava’s pet name for alligators] in the wild. Once an alligator reaches a size of four feet its only real predator is man.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell Fiction

I look for my sister but it's hopeless. The goggles are all fogged up. Every fish burns lantern-bright, and I can't tell the living from the dead. It's all just blurry light, light smeared like some celestial fingerprint all over the rocks and the reef and the sunken garbage. Olivia could be everywhere.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell 48 Loss Sisters

As a kid I heard the word malignancy as Malig-Nancy like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and the Chief and Dr. Gautman himself corrected me. Our mother had mistaken her first symptoms for a pregnancy, and so I still pictured the Malig-Nancy as a baby, a tiny, eyeless fist of a sister, killing her.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell Anger Death Loss Sorrow

There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species. And now that loneliness was over.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell Loneliness Monsters

Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You’re going to tell these honest, earnest writers: You gotta have faith? Those are George Michael lyrics, asshole. If they wanted that pep talk, they could just hang out inside a mall elevator.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell Advice Humor Nanowrimo Pep Talk Writing

The past, with its monstrous depth and span, reached toward him, demanding an understanding that he simply could not give it. His mind was too young and too narrow to withstand the onrush of her life.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell Heartbreak Love

The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell Sleep

the gravity of wound to fist

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell Abuse Abuse Survivors Pain Rape Relationships

We've been working out of our tin can for half a decade. Nobody suggests moving into a brick-and-mortar office; nobody wants to peer through glass windows, in a building with a foundation, and admit that the insomnia emergency is now a permanent condition.

~ Karen Russell

Karen Russell Denial Epidemic
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