I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a wid... - Joyce Carol Oates
"I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart."
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"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
"The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love."
"Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy."
"And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices."
"The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love."