Karen Cushman Quotes

. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.

Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.

Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.

Love brightens and purifies the heart.

I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.

Seems to me home is where I am loved and safe and needed.

Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.

I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

Fathers should make you feel safe.

Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.

It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own.

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.