Quotes by : Karen Russell

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

I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth....

We've been working out of our tin can for half a decade. Nobody suggests moving into a brick-and-mortar....

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.

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

The past, with its monstrous depth and span, reached toward him, demanding an understanding that he simply....

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