Quotes by : Karen Thompson Walker

The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when....

This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.

I'd grown up hearing stories about the special hazards that girls faced. I knew where the bodies were....

I could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so....

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the....

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness....

But the past is long, and the future is short.

We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention....

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.