Katie

“It’s rarely the truth itself that people can’t accept. It’s how they feel about it.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

“In the center of the storm, I believed that the worst had happened. But I was wrong about that. The dust had another lesson to teach me: so long as you’re still drawing breath, there’s always more to lose.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

“Ask any stone or flower if it feels grateful to be here. Your mother does not have much advice to pass on, but I can tell you when to be wary. You should be grateful is a sentence that the powerful wield like a cudgel.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

“Why should money make evil comprehensible to anyone? But it does precisely this. Greed, violence, cruelty-money can explain them. Money can make the most heinous act seem like a sane one. A business decision. A necessary calculation. Evil’s genius is to costume itself as sense.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote