Jack of Spades Quotes

“Silence rolled at me, in waves.
They are all dead, and you are free.
And you are blameless.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades

“Fortunately, the clinical diagnosis “ADD” didn’t exist when I was a child, and restless children were not medicated, or I might have been narcotized at an early age, and my brain affected. (No one can tell me that dosing young children with such powerful drugs will have no long-term effect upon them.)”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense

“one kept me informed on Dad’s progress. Or lack of progress. Or how serious it all was—is. You certainly didn’t, darling.” Yet, was this true? Vaguely I seemed to know that my father was not doing well for some time. Driving on our country roads you see the carcasses of animals—raccoons, deer—lying at the roadside, killed”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense

“; so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women friends in the area, who take courses at the Mill Brook Valley Arts Co-op and whose houses are gradually filling with their creations, like ships gradually sinking beneath the weight of ever-more cargo.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades

“The Dark Half”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense

“To destroy evil we must destroy the being which evil inhabits, even if it is ourselves.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Jack of Spades