Black Water
Joyce Carol Oates
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.”
“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, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.”
“How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell your story.”
“A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.”
“You love the life you've lived because it is yours.”
“for politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not”
“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, your 'principles', your 'ideals' - and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.”
“You love the life you've lived, there is no other. You love the life you've lived, you're an American girl. You believe you have chosen it.”
“[...] misinterpreting her silence for a broken heart, her cynicism about men for depression, ir despondency [...]”
“Why had she hesitated to say they were lost, why hadn't she told him to turn the car around, to reverse their course, oh please!—but she had not dared offend him. The black water was her fault, she knew. You just don't want to offend them. Even the nice ones.”
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Book Keywords:
principles, words, ideals
