Karen Thompson Walker Quotes

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

Karen Thompson Walker

I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.

Karen Thompson Walker

Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.

Karen Thompson Walker

How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.

Karen Thompson Walker

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

Karen Thompson Walker

Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?

Karen Thompson Walker

I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.

Karen Thompson Walker

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

Karen Thompson Walker