Quotes by : Karen Russell

There were many deficits in our swamp education, but Grandpa Sawtooth, to his credit, taught us the names....

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

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

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to just....

There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru's saw. My....

I look for my sister but it's hopeless. The goggles are all fogged up. Every fish burns lantern-bright,....

As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times....

Even if she’d [Ossie] gotten away from him [her ghost fiancé] the prognostications were grim—alligators....

the gravity of wound to fist