Fools Quotes

“If you saw through everything, it made it hard to figure out what to do with yourself.”
― Joan Silber, Fools: Stories

“So, in the end, we were hypocrites for kindness. Both of us. Standing with my bouquet of orange blossoms, I thought: I'm happy but I'm in disguise. But probably many people feel that at their weddings.”
― Joan Silber, Fools: Stories

“You don't know what you're going to be faithful to in this world, do you? It was true I didn't have what other people had, I knew that, and yet I couldn't think of a single other life I envied - no, I couldn't - though I knew better than to try to get anyone to believe it.”
― Joan Silber, Fools: Stories