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• You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Thinking, Unforgivable, Knows

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.197, Penguin

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• A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Men, Sometimes, Turns

  Karen Joy Fowler (2004). “Sarah Canary”, Plume

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• You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Prayer, Book, Believe

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• Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Men, Taught, Cheat

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• We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Class, People, Looks

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.34, Penguin

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• Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

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  Impact, Needs, Bookstores

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.4, Penguin

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• I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Boys, Awful, Broke Up

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.69, Penguin

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• Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Baby, School, High School

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• Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Earth, Pheromones, Idiom

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.194, Serpent's Tail

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• . . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

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  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.

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  Voice, Water, Owl

  Karen Joy Fowler (2004). “Sarah Canary”, Plume

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• It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Writing, Important, Austen

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.102, Penguin

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• I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Grateful, Parent, Complaining

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.259, Serpent's Tail

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• The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

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  Scams, Value Of Money, Values

  Karen Joy Fowler (2013). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel”, p.145, Penguin

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• You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

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  Dad, Admire, Admire You

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.197, Serpent's Tail

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• I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Daughter, Psychologist, Knows

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• You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Beautiful, Sleep, White

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.176, Serpent's Tail

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