Karen Russell Quotes

Unfortunately, no matter how much time you get, you can always use more.

There is not enough time for anything, ever.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

I haven't had the time to find the time too long.

I am always in a rush because time is slipping away, and I am chasing it, chasing it.

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.

No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

Every love story is a potential grief story.

There's no good story without romance.

There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.

When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye, my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.