Mary Karr Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. The Liars' Club

2. I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

3. it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.

4. I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order. Lit

5. Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off. Lit

6. What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties. Lit