• A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

    Joyce Carol Oates: A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?
    Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Faithless: Tales of Transgression”, p.33, Harper Collins