Next day Quote by Joyce Maynard

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

— Joyce Maynard

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

— Joyce Maynard

No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

— Joyce Maynard

“I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we…

— Joyce Maynard

“It’s like life: sometimes the littlest thing turns out to be the most important.”

— Joyce Maynard

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose…

— Joyce Maynard

“She was in love with love.”

— Joyce Maynard

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

— Joyce Maynard

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

— Joyce Maynard

I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that…

— Joyce Maynard

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women,…

— Joyce Maynard

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had…

— Joyce Maynard