What you call your personality, you know? —it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.


I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories (ed. Zondervan, 2009) - ISBN: 9780061745751

Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

What you call your personality, you know? —it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright,...

What you call your personality, you know? —it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright,...

What you call your personality, you know? —it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright,...

What you call your personality, you know? —it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright,...