Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Joyce Carol Oates
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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 passed, and is irretrievable.”
“Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?”
“The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct”
“Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?”
“I'm Legs Sadovsky I'm FOXFIRE I don't fuck around with guys.”
“That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.”
“Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted? If it were not for language, could we lie?”
“-So you don't believe we have souls I guess?" and Legs laughed and said, "Yeah probably we do but why's that mean we're gonna last forever? Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?”
“The person you love best, you share the world with. When that person's gone the world remains but it isn't the same thing, it's at a distance.”
“Then the noise faded and Legs squinted up at the sky, the moon so bright you'd never think it could be merely rock like the earth's common rock and lifeless, merely reflected light from an invisible sun and not a powerful living light of its own...”
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Book Keywords:
change, finality, time, eternity, flame, soul
