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Karen Joy Fowler

Technically a memoir, ‘The Woman Warrior’ becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

Woman, Warrior, Through

Karen Joy Fowler

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true,only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

memories, storytelling, truth

Karen Joy Fowler

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that’s not so clear anymore.

Karen Joy Fowler

We call them feelings because we feel them.

Karen Joy Fowler

Like they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them.

done-time, know, person

Karen Joy Fowler

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

immortality, trees

Karen Joy Fowler

But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.

fairytales, real-world, wishes

Karen Joy Fowler

The dogs came racing up the stairs. They danced at Rima’s feet, frantic with the need to communicate something to her. Little Timmy’s down the well! Feed us ice cream and potato chips! Sometimes there’s a benefit to not sharing a language.

dachshund, dogs

Karen Joy Fowler

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.

Karen Joy Fowler

We don’t choose whom we love,” he told Maura, so gently that she knew he knew. If she wasn’t going to be loved in return, she would have liked not to be pitied for it. She got neither of these wishes. “But people have this advantage over swans, to put their unwise loves aside and love another. Not me. I’m too much swan for that.

love, love-hurts, swans-fairy-tales, unrequited-love

Karen Joy Fowler

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

january, june, madness, may

Karen Joy Fowler

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can’t tell you how much this offends me.

money, problems, root-causes