Fox Quotes

“For what was love but a kind of rope you gripped. The promise was that you could tug this rope and it would haul you forward, it would not fall loose in your hands.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“Killing anybody local—fucks up the relatives. The community. Law enforcement is for the protection of the community. Not the individual, the community.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“For what is reading but the dissolution of the merely personal into the impersonal, a triumph of mental concentration.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“But in a man’s private quarters it’s the condition of a venetian blind, or the stale-sour smell of his bedding, or the contents of his personal computer that most reveal his soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“terrified of any kind of doctor, any kind of test, hospitals. It’s in hospitals that people die. Or, if they don’t die in the hospital something inside them dies, that never returns.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“Children are, by definition, deeply boring. They are more interested in themselves than in you.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“Below the bluff, down a treacherous flight of wooden steps white-splotched with the droppings of gulls like leprosy or the acne of a brain beset by spurious notions of guilt not his own but foisted upon him by dwarf-souled others.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“You have to believe in soul. You have to believe in reincarnation. But if the body is badly torn apart, does the soul escape whole? Can a soul be injured, wounded, by the suffering inflicted upon its body?”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“A man can discover that his own child scarcely knows him in any way that defines him as an adult among adults. This should be corrected.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“The challenge is to entice, not frighten.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“Odom’s stunned-oyster look.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“knife with a double-edged blade, any way you grasp it your fingers will bleed.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“DNA, the blood-connection. Explains so much without really explaining anything.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox

“Heavy rain has fallen through the night with a din of crazed castanets.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Fox