Top 5 Jo Ann Beard Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “In a few hours the world will resume itself, but for now we’re in a pocket of silence. We’re in the plasmapause, a place of equilibrium, where the forces of the earth meet the forces of the sun. I imagine it as a place of stillness, where the particles of dust stop spinning and hang motionless in deep space.”

— Jo Ann Beard

2. “My domestic partner describes me as having “penetrating sanity,” but partly that’s because he can sleep through anything, and partly it’s because he believes in the power of suggestion.”

— Jo Ann Beard

3. “I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me.”

— Jo Ann Beard

4. “I do miss childhood: one long trance state, broken only by bouts of sickening family discord.”

— Jo Ann Beard

5. “As she lies in the bed she weeps, for Bing, for the melting, shimmering candles, the filigree on the holiday tablecloth. She is an unwilling astronaut, bumping against the thick glass of the ship, her line tangling lazily in zero gravity, face mask fogged with fear. My sister reaches across, over the bed, and we both embrace the mother, holding her on earth, pulling her onto the ship, breathing our oxygen into her line. Ten hours later she is dead.”

— Jo Ann Beard

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