Joyce Carol Oates Quote

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.


Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway (ed. Ecco, 2008)


There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, ...

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, ...

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, ...

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, ...