I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

— Karen Joy Fowler

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

I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back.

— Karen Joy Fowler

I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.

— Karen Joy Fowler

I’m seeing so much of America today,” Luna kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him — whenever things were not to his liking, he’d say that — I’m seeing so much of America today.

— Karen Joy Fowler

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

— Karen Joy Fowler

Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

— Karen Joy Fowler

Like they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them.

— Karen Joy Fowler

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

— Karen Joy Fowler

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition, and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

— Karen Joy Fowler