“ If a man hurts you, and you show that hurt, and your eyes lock with his, he will never forgive you. For always you will be the girl he has hurt, which means you are the girl he can always hurt again.… Joyce Carol Oates
“ [...] aunque sí puedo aceptar la proposición según la cual la vida es una metáfora del boxeo —en uno de esos combates que siguen y siguen, asalto tras asalto, jabs o golpes rápidos, golpes errados, en… Joyce Carol Oates
“ You who are non-believers rely upon us, to confirm your sense of superiority. You need to imagine us as unchanged, unchangeable. Joyce Carol Oates
“ While Annabel possessed the sylphid grace of a fairy-tale princess, unstudied and seemingly spontaneous, yet with a dreamy air, Willy presented a dramatic contrast: brash, brusque, heavy-jawed, with e… Joyce Carol Oates
“ Time is the element in which we exist... We are either borne along by it or drowned in it. Joyce Carol Oates
“ These were no-man's-lands, limbos of a sort, places where language did not prevail and the only protection was flight, if you could run fast enough; or submission if you couldn't. Joyce Carol Oates
“ The politics of the day infuriated him: even when power lay with the politicians he supported, and the opposition appeared to be failing, so much in the political sphere seemed to him vile, vulgar, me… Joyce Carol Oates
“ That sensation of things-falling-away. Once the ice begins to crack, it will happen swiftly. She Joyce Carol Oates
“ That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can’t confront it. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Sick?--What's sick? Who is 'well'? Do you imagine, if you or I were minutely examined, we would be one hundred percent 'well'? Joyce Carol Oates
“ She was one who wished to believe the human motives precede actions for she was (she had always been) a rational individual yet clearly there were times (was this one of those times?) when actions mig… Joyce Carol Oates
“ Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself... Joyce Carol Oates
“ O.K. he's crazy. But he's a saint too.He scares me, I don't like him.He scares me. What the hell-he knows.Yeah? Why? What does he know?--Things most people'd have to die and go to Hell for, to know. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Mom’s new husband was eleven years older than Mom. He had been Mom’s boss at the Buick dealership where she’d worked until they were married, and you could see that he was still Mom’s boss—the way he… Joyce Carol Oates
“ It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing - how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times,… Joyce Carol Oates
“ In dreams sometimes it is like this. I am lying very still, my arms and legs are numb or paralyzed. There is a medical term—peripheral neuropathy. A tingling sensation in fingers and toes that moves u… Joyce Carol Oates
“ In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood. Joyce Carol Oates
