Top 100 Karen Russell Quotes (2024 Update)
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Karen Russell Quote: “For the first time, I feel just as sorry for my ma as for my dad. Everybody wants to go home, and no one can agree on where that is anymore.”

101. “For the first time, I feel just as sorry for my ma as for my dad. Everybody wants to go home, and no one can agree on where that is anymore.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “It’s our suspicion that there’s another, better Heaven behind the cumulus screen,′ he murmurs into the grass, bending and tearing at a root that tastes beautifully yellow. ‘That’s the trouble. That’s what keeps us trapped here, minds in animals.”

102. “It’s our suspicion that there’s another, better Heaven behind the cumulus screen,′ he murmurs into the grass, bending and tearing at a root that tastes beautifully yellow. ‘That’s the trouble. That’s what keeps us trapped here, minds in animals.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom.”

103. “She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “People were mincing words for me now, making me a word puree. As if I didn’t have the teeth to bite into the apple.”

104. “People were mincing words for me now, making me a word puree. As if I didn’t have the teeth to bite into the apple.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “People with options feel torn. People with options feel pulled, tugged – people who can move in multiple directions. Whereas those without homes are often immobilized by illness and poverty and addition. They lack stable shelter, a bed in which to dream. Without this most basic infrastructure, how does a person so much as imagine alternatives, let alone move toward them, inhabit them? Feeling ‘torn’ is yet another luxury of the highly mobile. Feeling ‘torn’ is a symptom of freedom.”

105. “People with options feel torn. People with options feel pulled, tugged – people who can move in multiple directions. Whereas those without homes are often immobilized by illness and poverty and addition. They lack stable shelter, a bed in which to dream. Without this most basic infrastructure, how does a person so much as imagine alternatives, let alone move toward them, inhabit them? Feeling ‘torn’ is yet another luxury of the highly mobile. Feeling ‘torn’ is a symptom of freedom.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “Doesn’t it matter how you ask the question? Or if the tone of your request is closer to a fist than to an open palm? Can the nature of the request corrupt the purity of the gift, the donated sleep?”

106. “Doesn’t it matter how you ask the question? Or if the tone of your request is closer to a fist than to an open palm? Can the nature of the request corrupt the purity of the gift, the donated sleep?”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “At ten, I couldn’t articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well.”

107. “At ten, I couldn’t articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “Grammar can erect a false wall. Look at how I keep falling into this trap, writing this piece. To refer to the thousands of diverse individuals with unique histories who are sleeping on the street tonight as “the homeless” certainly expedites a sentence. But it inadvertently reinforces an ugly and false idea, perhaps secretly consoling: that “the homeless” are a monolithic population, a different species of person from those of “us” lucky enough to have jobs and homes.”

108. “Grammar can erect a false wall. Look at how I keep falling into this trap, writing this piece. To refer to the thousands of diverse individuals with unique histories who are sleeping on the street tonight as “the homeless” certainly expedites a sentence. But it inadvertently reinforces an ugly and false idea, perhaps secretly consoling: that “the homeless” are a monolithic population, a different species of person from those of “us” lucky enough to have jobs and homes.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “How could you make a mistake when you had one option?”

109. “How could you make a mistake when you had one option?”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “I say nothing. But I keep thinking: It’s been two years. What if all the Olivia-ness has already seeped out of her and evaporated into the violet welter of clouds? Evaporated, and rained down, and evaporated, and rained down. Olivia slicking over all the rivers and trees and dirty cities in the world. So that now there is only silt, and our stupid, salt-diluted longing. And nothing left of our sister to find.”

110. “I say nothing. But I keep thinking: It’s been two years. What if all the Olivia-ness has already seeped out of her and evaporated into the violet welter of clouds? Evaporated, and rained down, and evaporated, and rained down. Olivia slicking over all the rivers and trees and dirty cities in the world. So that now there is only silt, and our stupid, salt-diluted longing. And nothing left of our sister to find.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “Mr. Oamaru has taught me that loss isn’t just limited to the present; it can happen in any direction. Even what’s done and vanished can be taken from you. Other, earlier memories that we made of my father sink and revert to water.”

111. “Mr. Oamaru has taught me that loss isn’t just limited to the present; it can happen in any direction. Even what’s done and vanished can be taken from you. Other, earlier memories that we made of my father sink and revert to water.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “Lemons wink like a firmament of yellow stars, slowly ripening, and I can see the other, truer night behind them.”

112. “Lemons wink like a firmament of yellow stars, slowly ripening, and I can see the other, truer night behind them.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “We are all raccoon-drunk on moonlight and bloodshed and the heady, underblossom smell of the forest.”

113. “We are all raccoon-drunk on moonlight and bloodshed and the heady, underblossom smell of the forest.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “Promises are fragile things. You blink, and they turn into lies.”

114. “Promises are fragile things. You blink, and they turn into lies.”

— Karen Russell

Karen Russell Quote: “Sand, sand, sand – all that pulverized time. Eons ago, the world’s burst hourglass spilled its contents here; now the years pile and spin, waiting with inhuman patience to be swept into some future ocean.”

115. “Sand, sand, sand – all that pulverized time. Eons ago, the world’s burst hourglass spilled its contents here; now the years pile and spin, waiting with inhuman patience to be swept into some future ocean.”

— Karen Russell

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