Mary Karr Quotes

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Running away from something doesn't do anything except put distance.

If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.

I am always running away from something.

I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

I have a friend called James who is in his 40s and he's still not allowed to swear in front of his mum. I find it strange that you can't be yourself and be open with the one person who brought you into this world.

Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

When you run in fear, it's square into the wall.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.

I ran like a thing that runs.

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

Are you running away from something?

Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.

Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.

We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.