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A Garden of Earthly Delights (Wonderland Quartet, #1) QUOTES

A Garden of Earthly Delights (Wonderland Quartet, #1) QUOTES

1 " Like the philosophy credited to Jack Dempsey: The more punches a man takes, the closer he is to the end. Because a man has only a fixed number of punches he can take in his lifetime. “Pa? "

― Joyce Carol Oates , A Garden of Earthly Delights (Wonderland Quartet, #1)

2 " A library is a mausoleum: books of the dead. And so many. And so many secrets lost to him forever. Hadn't time for it all and if he couldn't do it all then there was no point in doing any of it. For such an effort would be like drawing a single breath in the knowledge that you would not draw another. You were fated to suffocate, to die. You were fated to become extinct. "

― Joyce Carol Oates , A Garden of Earthly Delights (Wonderland Quartet, #1)

3 " Once you own things you have to be afraid of them. Of losing them. "

― Joyce Carol Oates , A Garden of Earthly Delights (Wonderland Quartet, #1)

4 " Of course, a literary work is a kind of nest: an elaborately and painstakingly woven nest of words incorporating chunks and fragments of the writer's life in an imagined structure, as a bird's nest incorporates all manner of items from the world outside our windows, ingeniously woven together in an original design. "

― Joyce Carol Oates , A Garden of Earthly Delights (Wonderland Quartet, #1)

5 " young girl Revere had brought home "

― Joyce Carol Oates , A Garden of Earthly Delights (Wonderland Quartet, #1)