Karen Fisher Quotes

#1. Because affection, she had learned, was such a civilized thing, compared to love. It exacted so much less and was therefore more enduring. And endurable.

Karen Fisher

#2. We cannot choose, he thought, the people we're born into nor what they teach us. So that opposition exists, and appears to us as evil. It is part of life, and sorrow is its natural consequence.

Karen Fisher

#3. Do you remember
the summer of the rain...
You must let everything fall that wants to fall.

Karen Fisher

#4. It was a fine country, or would be, different from any she had known. But if it was the promised land, it was not because of the trees or climate, but because, just getting here, they'd found something new inside themselves.

Karen Fisher

#5. He looked around, saw himself mirrored in that man walking back with his rifle. And suddenly, it seemed possible to him that we might love ourselves the most when we are suffering and seen to suffer. The pursuits of men seemed only the more shocking, if this were true.

Karen Fisher

#6. Our stories are all we have. The only thing that can save us is to learn each other's stories. From beginning to end....For every life we know, we are expanded.

Karen Fisher

#7. He thought, This country does attract fanatics and torment them.

Karen Fisher