Author: Koren Zailckas

Quotes

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive.

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive.

- Koren Zailckas

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.

- Koren Zailckas

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

- Koren Zailckas

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

- Koren Zailckas

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike.

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike.

- Koren Zailckas

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