The Tattooed Girl Quotes

“We see the shadows of things, not the things themselves . . . We are forced to imagine what the writer doesn’t reveal.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Tattooed Girl: A Novel

“So they'd fucked up her life, those guys she'd trusted, for fun. What the hell.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Tattooed Girl

“Though words sometimes puzzled Alma, she never looked up any word in any dictionary; a word was like a pebble to be turned briefly in the hand, and tossed away, with no expectation that it would be encountered again.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Tattooed Girl