Joyce Carol Oates

The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Horror

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  • Teohas quoted2 years ago
    life, there are predators, and prey. A predator may require bait, and prey may mistake bait for sustenance.
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    but high grades seemed to me a kind of embarrassment, the consequence of hard work as hard work seemed but the consequence of desperation.
  • Teohas quoted2 years ago
    the woman has smiled so hard and so often there are sharp crow’s-feet beside her eyes.
  • Teohas quoted2 years ago
    For here is the injustice: only if you are killed, are you “innocent.” If you fight for your life, you are “guilty.”
  • Teohas quoted2 years ago
    I did not like these Russian dolls, that made me feel slightly sick. I thought of how a woman carries a baby inside her and how terrifying it would be if that baby carried another baby inside it.
  • Dany Téllezhas quoted3 years ago
    “The animals seem ‘tame’ to us, but that’s a misconception. They are not ‘tame.’ They just have no genetic memory of human beings as predators.”
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