Joan Wickersham Quotes

• There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

  Joan Wickersham

  Optimism, Lovely, Possibility

  "7 Truths Women Have To Learn The Hard Way" by Joan Wickersham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2013.

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• A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

  Joan Wickersham

  Dream, Stories, Love Story

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• [On suicide:] It's the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you die of cancer you are not called 'a cancer.' If someone else shoots you, you are not referred to as 'a murder.' But if you shoot yourself, you are labeled as a suicide. Your death becomes your definition.

  Joan Wickersham

  Suicide, Cancer, Causes

  Joan Wickersham (2009). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

  Joan Wickersham

  Healing, Doe, Bruises

  Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.

  Joan Wickersham

  Missing, Sound, Matter

  Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?

  Joan Wickersham

  Able, Affair, Love Affair

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