Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story

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There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconse — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
In this way unwittingly the Widow-to-Be is assuring her husband’s death—his doom. Even as she believes she is behaving i — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
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, A Widow's Story
How strange it is, to be walking away. Is it possible that I am really going to leave Ray—here? Is it possible that he w — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
She will speculate that she didn’t fully know her husband—this will give her leverage to seek him, to come to know him. — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarel — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
Nor do I like being told upsetting news—unless there is a good reason. I can’t help but feel that there is an element of — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray’s best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhil — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
It is the most horrific thought—my husband died among strangers. — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism. — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
Loving our parents, we bring them into us. They inhabit us. For a long time I believed that I could not bear to live wit — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
The minutiae of our lives! Telephone calls, errands, appointments. None of these is of the slightest significance to oth — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid pat — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his ef — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, a — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed—to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
It may be that actual tears have stained the tile floors or soaked into the carpets of such places. It may be that these — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story
Nowhere in a hospital can you walk without blundering into the memory pools of strangers—their dread of what was imminen — Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow's Story