Joyce Carol Oates Quote

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.


The Accursed (ed. HarperCollins UK, 2013) - ISBN: 9780007494217


The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them....

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them....

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them....

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them....