Joyce Carol Oates · 582 pages
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“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
“Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself...”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
“On their own, your eyes did not naturally discover the sky.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
“Las masas se venden por un salario, los capitalistas son unos hijos de puta que te seccionan la yugular, recogen tu sangre en frascos y la venden al mejor postor, la religión es el opio de las masas y las iglesias son empresas capitalistas organizadas para hacer dinero y asegurarse poder e influencia. Por supuesto, las leyes favorecen a los ricos y a los poderosos, el poder sólo desea engendrar más poder de la misma manera que el capiral sólo quiere engendrar más capital.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
“Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself…”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
“That sensation of things-falling-away. Once the ice begins to crack, it will happen swiftly. She”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
“Three days later on October 29, 1959, the Pontiac registered in the name of Niles Tignor would be discovered, gas tank near-empty, keys on the floorboards beneath the front seat, in a parking lot close by the Greyhound bus station in Rome, New York.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
“You have hardened your heart against your “American cousin.” It was courageous in the memoir to state so clearly how you had to harden your heart against so much, to survive. Americans believe that suffering makes saints of us, which is a joke. Still I realize you have no time for me in your life now. There is no “purpose” to me. Even”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
“Durante la primera semana en la sala de montaje, a Rebecca le producía náuseas el olor, la rapidez del ritmo, el ruido. Ruido ruido ruido. Con tantos decibelios, el ruido no es sólo sonido, sino algo físico, visceral, como una corriente eléctrica que atraviesa el cuerpo.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
“Asusta, corta la respiración, cada vez con más fuerza. El corazón se acelera para mantener el paso. El cerebro echa a correr, pero sin ir a ningún sitio. No es posible pensar de manera coherente. Los pensamientos se derraman como las cuentas de una sarta rota...”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
“THANK YOU but please do not write again. And do not call. I have had enough of you.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates
Born place: in Lockport, New York, The United States
Born date June 16, 1938
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