Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them, then you are reduced to writing about spectacular unreal people. You know, James Bond or something, and you cook up adventures.

Popular Topics
Songs, Like, Dress, Willing, Relationships, I Miss You, Religion, Comfortable, Love You, Difference, Philosophy, Humbly, Thing, Afternoon, Live, Girl, Evidence, Justice, English, Life Is Good, Love, Impossible, Think, Beauty, Gossip, Music, Important, Poor, Fly, Good, Education, Culture, Thank You, Inspiration, Lifetime, Flower, Drama, Diamond, Value Of Life, Acknowledge, Feelings, Football, Private Life, Path Of Love, Night, Weak, Life, Hope, Future, Feeling
Joan Wickersham

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.

Dream, Interior, Love, Love Story, Stories, Story
Same Author Quotes

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

Lovely, Optimism, Possibility, Uncertainty

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.

Absorption, Bruises, Doe, Happen, Healing, Like

[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.

Cancer, Describe, Noun, Nouns, Shoot, Suicide

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

Able, Affair, Love, Love Affair, Similar, Word

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.

Iss, Matter, Miss, Missing, Sound
Similar Quotes