“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.”
―
Karen Thompson Walker,
The Age of Miracles
“The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“This is how the sickness travels best: through all the same channels as do fondness and friendship and love.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“I liked the idea, how the past could be preserved, fossilized, in the stars. I wanted to think that somewhere on the other end of time, a hundred light years from then, someone else, some distant future creature, might be looking back at a preserved image of me and my father at that very moment in my bedroom.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“But the past is long, and the future is short.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones you don't expect at all.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“The things that could have happened but did not are just as crucial to a life as all the things that do.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
“And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“This is how the sickness travels best: through all the same channels as do fondness and friendship and love.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“I liked the idea, how the past could be preserved, fossilized, in the stars. I wanted to think that somewhere on the other end of time, a hundred light years from then, someone else, some distant future creature, might be looking back at a preserved image of me and my father at that very moment in my bedroom.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“But the past is long, and the future is short.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones you don't expect at all.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“The things that could have happened but did not are just as crucial to a life as all the things that do.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
“And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.” ― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
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