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1. "When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material." ~ Joyce Maynard
2. "The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art." ~ Joyce Maynard
3. "I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?" ~ Joyce Maynard
4. "Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love." ~ Joyce Maynard
5. "At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood." ~ Joyce Maynard
6. "For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously." ~ Joyce Maynard
7. "I continued to protect him with my silence." ~ Joyce Maynard
8. "A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen." ~ Joyce Maynard
9. "If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life." ~ Joyce Maynard
10. "I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story." ~ Joyce Maynard
11. "I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level." ~ Joyce Maynard
12. "It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects." ~ Joyce Maynard
13. "It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful." ~ Joyce Maynard
14. "Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones." ~ Joyce Maynard
15. "My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?" ~ Joyce Maynard
16. "Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful." ~ Joyce Maynard
17. "The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn." ~ Joyce Maynard
18. "The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell." ~ Joyce Maynard
19. "Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old." ~ Joyce Maynard
20. "To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it." ~ Joyce Maynard
21. "A person who deserves my loyalty receives it." ~ Joyce Maynard
22. "It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself." ~ Joyce Maynard
23. "If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself." ~ Joyce Maynard
24. "She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her." ~ Joyce Maynard
25. "The real drug, I came to believe, was love." ~ Joyce Maynard
26. "No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget." ~ Joyce Maynard
27. "You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray.(how to calm a crying baby)" ~ Joyce Maynard
28. "There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning." ~ Joyce Maynard
29. "No doubt Richard's father, like my mother, had once held his infant son in his arms, looked into the eyes of his child's mother, and believed they would move into the future together with love. The fact that they didn't was a weight each of us carried, as every child does, probably, whose parents no longer live under the same roof. Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back." ~ Joyce Maynard
30. "...tragedy and death would follow a person whereever he went in life. There was no such thing as escape, except maybe the kind that Mr. Kirby had accomplished..." ~ Joyce Maynard
31. "You like to think you can count on a person. To hang around" ~ Joyce Maynard
32. "Daughters," he told her as they dug. "Nothing better than a good daughter." ~ Joyce Maynard
33. "My mother didn't believe in germs but I did. Germs are something they made up to distract people from what they should really be worried about, she said. Germs are natural. It's the things people do you have to worry about." ~ Joyce Maynard
34. "Ihre Schuhe - ihre Tanzschuhe - lagen unter dem Tisch, und ihre Haare wirkten feucht - vielleicht von Tanzen, vielleicht aber auch vom Leben." ~ Joyce Maynard
35. "It was as if I'd been in the middle of a book that I had to put down when I got too tired to keep reading, or a video put on pause. I wanted to pick back up with the story and find out what happened to the characters, except that the characters were us." ~ Joyce Maynard
36. "If you act like something's too hard, it will be, he said. You got to believe it's possible." ~ Joyce Maynard
37. "Some family's boat capsized at Lake Winnipesaukee the day before and now they were looking for the father's body." ~ Joyce Maynard
38. "He himself did not eat. I had been hungry, but sitting there now, at the table with the two of them, it felt as crude to chew or swallow as it would have to munch on popcorn at a baby's christening, or lick an ice-cream cone while your friend told you his dog died. I shouldn't be here was how I felt." ~ Joyce Maynard
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure."
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