In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.


I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)

Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton...

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton...

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton...

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton...