Katherine > Katherine's Quotes

“Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.”
― Richard Ford

“No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...”
― Kiran Desai

“Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“We learn from tragedy. Slowly.”
― Josephine Hart

“Her forehead, so high and oval, reminded him of how Shakespeare was supposed to look. He was not certain how to put this to her.”
― Ian McEwan

“If he were around this place as a professor, he could teach 'Appropriate Behavior in Classical Greek Drama,' a course that would be over before it began.”
― Philip Roth

“Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories.”
― Sloan Wilson

“...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.”
― Anita Desai

“I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.”
― Tana French, The Likeness

“If this world can exist, then anything is possible.”
― Mary Swan

“The feeling for words comes at an early age--or rather it is lost in most cases at any early age, leaving the rest poets" (170).”
― Peter DeVries

“To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.”
― Richard Russo, Straight Man

“I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.”
― Bukowski, Charles