Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.
Karen RussellBut things can be over in horizontal time and just beginning in your body, I’m learning. Sometimes the memory of that summer feels like a spore in me, a seed falling through me.
Karen RussellAnd I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.
Karen RussellTag: writing
Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.
Karen RussellHopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.
Karen RussellWell, you look weird. New pajamas? Did somebody exhume you last night?" -- Kiwi, Swamplandia!
Karen RussellWho is going to pay a day's wage to slide down a damn tongue?" -- The Chief, Swamplandia
Karen RussellWe met every morning, still bearded with toast crumbs from our continental breakfasts.
Karen RussellPain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.
Karen RussellI wish I could say I gulp pure courage as I run, like those brave little girls you read about in stories, ... But this burst of speed comes from an older adrenaline, some limbic other. Not courage, but a deeper terror. I don't want to be left alone. And I am ready to defend Ossie against whatever monster I encounter, ... and save her for myself.
Karen RussellTag: ava-wrestles-the-alligator karen-russell
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