Joan Wickersham Quotes

#1. She knows by now that grief is about endurance, understanding over and over that the person you loved is not coming back.

Joan Wickersham

#2. But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?

Joan Wickersham

#3. There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

Joan Wickersham

#4. Here I am
leaving you clues. I am singing now while Rome
burns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack,
my silent night, just mash your lips against me.
We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

Richard Siken

#5. Those moments of knowing are sharp and merciless, but then they fade out, like stars when the sky gets light in the morning. You know, and then you don't know.

Joan Wickersham

#6. Time and judgment collaborate to produce farce, and farce in turn contains much truth; major characters upon the stage may turn out to be lackeys in disguise, while the figures we have overlooked in the midst of the frenetic action unmask and reveal themselves as divinities. (160)

Joan Wickersham

#7. This world is vast enough to handle anything you dare to dream.

Hill Harper

#8. And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

Joan Wickersham

#9. There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.

John Hume

#10. The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.

Joan Wickersham

#11. There is so little joy in any life, I will take this time with you until I must go." He smoothed a lock of hair from her face. "In our old age, we'll remember and be glad.

Barbara Samuel

#12. I take my food very seriously. Whenever I hear that bell, I know Mrs. Norris is hankerin' for some spam.

Sandy Ward Bell

#13. Don't pity me, save me.

Tara Spears

#14. He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one.

Elly Griffiths

#15. A story went around that someone had asked Mozart how he intended to refute his detractors.
"I will refute them with new works," he said.
It was a confident, valiant thing for him to say, everyone thought. I thought so too, when I invented the story; and I still believe it today. (172)

Joan Wickersham

#16. Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

Robert Kennedy

#17. A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

Joan Wickersham