The Whip Quotes

“Everything was temporary; she understood that now. All of this was temporary. It would all be snatched away. It was all on loan. Even the people we love. They were all on loan. One day you see their face across a rickety table or you pass them hurrying from here to there, or you see them leave you in your bed, and their profile passes you by...and you don't know...your thoughts somewhere else. And then they are snatched away forever and you did not know to say goodbye. You did not know.”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“Life’s going to do that to you missy. Gonna upset your wagon, not just once but many times. And you got to choose who’s sitting next to you. Someone you can trust…or not.”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“But then it came to her…just change your mind about it. About everything. Shit. That was it. "What an idiot she was. It was that simple. Just decide to stop struggling and embrace it all as a gift. And in a single second, everything is different.”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“It was so strange, she thought, these moments we pray for; they happen so quick and then they’re gone. “Just like that,” Charley said out loud.”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“Friendship, true friendship is a curious dance. Why does one recognize and embrace one soul and yet not another. What is that? That something unspoken. Perhaps it is a long ago remembrance of another time, another place, those same familiar eyes shining out. Always we are searching for those recognizable eyes…so that we might at last be recognized ourselves.”
― Karen Kondazian , The Whip

“one hinge short of a nuthouse door”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“Lee Colton, however, a skinny somber-looking boy of four, slipped out of the bed he shared with another boy and followed at a canny distance. Curious where the mean fat lady was taking the crying baby, he continued to follow them. He tiptoed through another room of beds, and then down a long hallway, past a heavy mahogany wardrobe. Further down, at the end of the hallway, there was a door”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“But then it came to her…just change your mind about it. About everything. Shit. That was it. What an idiot she was. It was that simple. Just decide to stop struggling and embrace it all as a gift. And in a single second, everything is different.”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“secret. Never”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“vengeful”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“Here’s to being single…drinking doubles…and seeing triple!”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“It’s true that we’re all children disguised as adults…When age and illness embrace our body…when disease and pain overcome, our eternal youth within begins raging, stamping, praying. Please dear God who lays me down to sleep…an awful mistake has been made…I was just now learning to feel safe beneath this fragile skin, trust within this prison cell. Just now my eyes are open to the world…Just now I feel the earth beneath my feet.”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“First class passengers, stay where you are,” she yelled. “Second class, get out and walk. Third class, get down and push.”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“read aloud from Emerson: Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” A simple manly character need never make an a-po-lo-gy…”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“as Shakespeare wrote, “What a piece of work is a man…”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“reminded me of a quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—“life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could invent.”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip

“That the woman in her had died in anguish and a vengeful man had been born in her place apparently brooked no notice of the universe. Nor had the universe even blinked in the absorption into itself of her tragedy.”
― Karen Kondazian, The Whip