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She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an anarchist, she'd travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational. She'd fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She'd really work on it, but abandon would be involved as well. She'd have different names, a.k.a. Snake, a.k.a. Snow - no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

~ Joy Williams

Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is now working to her benefit. However, she doesn't know quite what it is, or how, actually, it works.

~ Joy Williams

That's nice, isn't it? Edith said. That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.

~ Joy Williams

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop.

~ Joy Williams