3 Quotes by Joan Wickersham

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.

Young” and “Poor” sounded so promising, the way my mother always told the story. Temporary conditions: poignant “befores” that existed only to contrast with the triumphant “afters.

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.