5 Quotes & Sayings By Karen Abbott

Karen Abbott is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of several books, including The Seven: A History of the World (Random House), Guilty (Doubleday), and the critically acclaimed biography Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt (Pantheon). Her next book will be about the life of Joan of Arc.

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And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them. Karen Abbott
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He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -June Havoc Karen Abbott
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Mother was, ' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and only sharpened with age. Karen Abbott
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Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any idea how to fix. Karen Abbott