5 Quotes & Sayings By Kat Kruger

Kat Kruger was born in Northern California in 1979. She graduated with a BA in English Literature from San Francisco State University in 2001. After college, she moved to New York City where she worked as a waitress and bartender, before landing her first job in publishing in 2005. At HarperCollins, she worked as an editor on the editorial team, and later as a literary assistant on the Night Birds series Read more

Her short story, "The Almond Tree" was a finalist for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. She is currently working on the second book of the Night Birds series, which will be called "The Black-Eyed Children."

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Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn’t on a checklist. Kat Kruger
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To them he’s the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper. Kat Kruger
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There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kills me. Not that I totally believe she’s nefarious. Real life isn’t made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with. Kat Kruger
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He doesn’t move a muscle except for his eyes that follow her path as though somehow he can see her contrails. His whole existence revolves around a girl who left his orbit, and he was the one who spun her off her axis. Kat Kruger