Beautiful Days Quotes

“He said no break is permanent. Like a bone that heals crooked, still it will heal.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Beautiful Days

“Love is what can’t be helped. When it waxes, and when it wanes. Love is what happens when you’ve been looking another way. Love is that sensation of something on the back of your neck, tell yourself it’s nothing, a strand of hair, at last you touch it and discover it’s an insect—you cast off with a curse.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Beautiful Days

“Love is what can’t be helped. When it waxes, and when it wanes.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Beautiful Days

“Happiness is being in one place. The picture fixes you in one place.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Beautiful Days