Able Quote by Joan Wickersham Download Open image “But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?” — Joan Wickersham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Affair Affair Word Current Love Currents Like Similar Love Love affair Similar Word Like
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“a highly organized and articulate set of ideas about anything. As in the case of a love affair the fit need not at the… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Young" and "Poor" sounded so promising, the way my mother always told the story. Temporary conditions: poignant "befores" that existed only to contrast with… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“What we did not say was that with these hurts an edge was worn down. It happens out of necessity -- it would not… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise. — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“Not just the beating. The words. 'Boris, you're stubborn, lazy, worthless, you can't do anything right, you're evil' -- at least once I heard… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound.… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“Those moments of knowing are sharp and merciless, but then they fade out, like stars when the sky gets light in the morning. You… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“That's how it went between us. We would have a horrible fight, which at the time would feel insurmountable. It was impossible to see… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“Or maybe she simply couldn't stay merry. That subversive, candid merriment of hers was enchanting, electric; but it was a social phenomenon. It was… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“You are like a nearsighted person who can see the cracks in the bowl when she's wearing glasses -- and so chooses not to… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“Time and judgment collaborate to produce farce, and farce in turn contains much truth; major characters upon the stage may turn out to be… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
