“ NO KISS FORGOTTEN; it resides in the memory as in the flesh, and so Katya many times felt the press of Marcus Kidder’s warm mouth on hers in the days and especially in the nights following. And her he… Joyce Carol Oates
“ Since thirteen, she’d been preparing. She wasn’t beautiful like these Bayhead Harbor girls, but it was surprising how men sometimes looked at her. More it was older men rather than guys her age, for s… Joyce Carol Oates
“ The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has… Joyce Carol Oates
“ She feel these hands tremble, and she could feel Mr. Kidder’s excitement. How eager she was to be gone from this room. Her heart was beating in mild revulsion from the man’s touch, but Katya forced he… Joyce Carol Oates
“ If this was a flirtation — and it felt like a flirtation — it was like no other flirtation in Katya’s experience: with a man old enough to be her grandfather? Joyce Carol Oates
“ She could feel these hands tremble, and she could feel Mr. Kidder’s excitement. How eager she was to be gone from this room. Her heart was beating in mild revulsion from the man’s touch, but Katya for… Joyce Carol Oates
“ For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the… Joyce Carol Oates
“ Momma used to say, you got to know when to move. More important than knowing when to stay put. Joyce Carol Oates
“ I could talk fast -- that's to say, without hesitating, stammering -- most of the time -- but there were categories of words, sentiments, I could never say, they'd have stuck in my throat. The embarra… Joyce Carol Oates
“ You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be al… Joyce Carol Oates
“ Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. Joyce Carol Oates
“ We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Playdate. (n) A Date arranged by adults in which young children are brought together, usually at the home of one of them, for the premeditated purpose of playing. A feature of contemporary American up… Joyce Carol Oates
