Joan Wickersham Professions : Author Born : 1957 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Joan Wickersham There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism. Joan Wickersham lovely possibility optimism 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 bruises healing doe 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 love-story stories dream [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 cancer causes suicide But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"? Joan Wickersham love-affair affair able 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 matter missing sound Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors