"There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it."

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Source : "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

Joyce Carol Oates

#Grief Quotes #Forever Quotes #Bereavement Quotes

“Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.”
“Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.”
“All bibles are man-made.”
“Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.”
“A firm hand is one which holds the horse in full contact.”
“Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.”
“There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.”
“The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.”

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