Karen Elizabeth Gordon Quotes

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Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

She knitted a loud woolen cap of her recriminations and yanked it over his head.

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Not only was her memory as sheer as her stockings, but each thing it held shone through every other one so vividly that all were hopelessly suffused.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Oh, how she loved to stand about the lobby of an afternoon, nabbing at passersby with her chronic cheerfulness, snapping her bright voice at them like a towel!

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

This little mop of a woman came in scooting across the tiles.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Oh, I love talking with him! He puts all these couches to lie down on in his sentences.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon