Karen Thompson Walker Quotes About Miracles

Quotes about: Miracles

• This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

• We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Christian, Miracle, Different

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

• Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Thinking, California, Miracle

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