Top 40 Karen Hawkins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.”

— Karen Hawkins

2. “Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.”

— Karen Hawkins

3. “Life is full of surprises and not all of them are good.”

— Karen Hawkins

4. “But sometimes one must travel the rough road to reach one’s ultimate destination.”

— Karen Hawkins

5. “If you ever find yourself presented with a fork in the road of life and you do not know the correct direction, close your eyes and listen to your heart. I have found more adventure, more love, more happiness, and more life by listening to who I am, rather than attempting to tell myself.”

— Karen Hawkins

6. “I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.”

— Karen Hawkins

7. “Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.”

— Karen Hawkins

8. “She was part wide-eyed wood nymph, part awkward society miss, and – he was beginning to realize – part testy library elf.”

— Karen Hawkins

9. “I don’t need a hero. I was blessed with a large amount of common sense, which is of infinitely more use than a man.”

— Karen Hawkins

10. “He slipped his tongue between her lips and thrust it wantonly inside her mouth over and over, echoing the enticing move of his hips against hers. She clutched him closer, reveling in the feel of him, and the fact that she’d made him moan for her, whisper her name over and over, beg her without words for more. To kiss him more. To touch him more.”

— Karen Hawkins

11. “No matter what station you hold in life, there will always be things that will surprise you. Whether you choose to be outraged or delighted is up to you.”

— Karen Hawkins

12. “Men are, if nothing else, predictable. Fortunately for us all, women are not.”

— Karen Hawkins

13. “Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin’, ’tis better t’stumble o’er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t’bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughtersone cold evening.”

— Karen Hawkins

14. “My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.”

— Karen Hawkins

15. “Pray stop your infernal whispering. You sound like a pack of nuns planning a murder.”

— Karen Hawkins

16. “But that’s what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you’re nice, too, which is silly in the extreme. Sadly, it’s a burden that you must bear.”

— Karen Hawkins

17. “Innocent and virtuous, she represented the exact type of female he avoided... God, she was a taking thing, even for an avaricious reformer.”

— Karen Hawkins

18. “When it’s a memory, you already know the outcome, so we believe it was an easier time.”

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19. “I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?”

— Karen Hawkins

20. “No woman worth her salt would listen to a proposal without the word ‘love’ in it.”

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21. “You can get lost, pretending to be someone you’re not.”

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22. “Buchan had discovered a wealth of small tidbits. He now knew her first name – Tatiana. Like Shakespeare’s fairy queen. “Be she but little, she is fierce.”

— Karen Hawkins

23. “Dementia was an unforgiving illness, one that stole hope and crumbled pride.”

— Karen Hawkins

24. “There’s always hope. And when that fails, there’s guile and wile.”

— Karen Hawkins

25. “The Days can spin yarns that seem so real that if one of them told you a tale about a blizzard, you’d get frostbite even if you were standing in your kitchen on the hottest day of the year.”

— Karen Hawkins

26. “Margaret,” she told me time and again, “you may be anything you wish, so long as you’re never boring.”

— Karen Hawkins

27. “You’d be surprised at the things you can discover by barging into someone’s bedchamber unannounced.”

— Karen Hawkins

28. “One should never ask a man questions about his personal life. He just might answer and then you, my dear, would have to listen.”

— Karen Hawkins

29. “Women provide the only true link to civilization. Men simply are not ruthless enough to survive on their own.”

— Karen Hawkins

30. “Love can’t cure a broken heart, but it can hold the two sides together while they heal.”

— Karen Hawkins

31. “I dislike being held to a set of rules for no reason other than to create the impression of order, whether it exists or not.”

— Karen Hawkins

32. “The school won’t let them hang pictures of bare-chested men in their lockers, so she and her friends cut out little outfits for them.”

— Karen Hawkins

33. “It took all of her moral strength not to kick him – just a little – while he was so conveniently at her feet.”

— Karen Hawkins

34. “It’s odd – when you look back, things seem simpler, but they weren’t.” “Really?” “When it’s a memory, you already know the outcome, so we believe it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and so feels more complicated. But I don’t think it is. Not really.”

— Karen Hawkins

35. “Frequently, things are seen as ‘insurmountable’ merely from a lack of know-how.”

— Karen Hawkins

36. “That’s what mother’s do. They bother you until you listen. And they do it because they car.”

— Karen Hawkins

37. “Don’t you think that’s the beauty of a book? It can take you places you can’t visit on your own, lets you meet people and see things you can’t in real life.”

— Karen Hawkins

38. “When it’s a memory, you already know the outcome so it’s easy to think it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and is more complicated. But I don’t think it is. Not really.”

— Karen Hawkins

39. “And that was love. True love. The kind that carried on and lasted through the good days and the difficult days. The kind of love that always gave, and never hurt. It might not be the kind of mad love poets wrote about, but it was the kind of love strong enough to build a home upon, secure in the knowledge that this man would be there when things went wrong and would do everything in his considerable power to make things right again.”

— Karen Hawkins

40. “When she returned, he would take great delight in showing her how much he loved the morning, when the air held a tang of freshness and the early light dispelled all shadows.”

— Karen Hawkins

41. “Don’t hide, child. People who really live have a little wear and tear. But that’s good. It’s what makes us interesting.”

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42. “Although only seven, she’d been reading since she was three, a fact her mother told anyone who would listen. Sarah was a voracious reader, and she’d found friends hiding between the pages of books. For her, the trips to the library meant more than the refreshing burst of air-conditioning. They were life.”

— Karen Hawkins

43. “Women prefer to draw blood using words. It can cause just as much havoc, but it doesn’t stain the carpet.”

— Karen Hawkins

44. “Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.”

— Karen Hawkins

45. “Numbers people don’t like being rushed, so back off.”

— Karen Hawkins

46. “Life is made up of moments, good and bad. But while you don’t get to pick all the moments, you do get to pick which ones you cling to.”

— Karen Hawkins

47. “Right now, Mama G’s memory is like the ocean. It comes and goes, high tide and low tide. But each time, the beach erodes a little bit more.”

— Karen Hawkins

48. “We have to move forward, sweetheart. And we can’t do that if we hold on to what was.”

— Karen Hawkins

49. “Mama G nodded and turned away, pulling a tissue from her sweater pocket and wiping her eyes. “I’m making this harder on us both.” “Nonsense. You’re scared. To be honest, I’m scared, too. But we’re together and that isn’t going to change.”

— Karen Hawkins