The (Other) You Quotes

“We know what our punishment is, but what was our sin?”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The (Other) You

“The voices and laughter of your species do not suffuse your heart with joy.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The (Other) You

“Yet, you might well be here, visiting the Yewville library as a longtime patron.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The (Other) You

“hovering in the air like a drunken moth.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The (Other) You

“The only love that matters is the absolute unreasonable unqualified and unearned love - the love you'd absorbed into the very pores of your being as a child, scarcely aware of your good fortune.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The (Other) You

“In marriage as in tennis, one player is inevitably superior to the other.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The (Other) You