“And you know what else I used to love? I loved to watch you get into your car and drive away -… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“It had been easy to decide in favor of love on Bethune Street, in favor of walking proud and naked on the… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Don't worry, I can't be bothered! You're not worth the trouble it would take to hit you! You're not worth the powder… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying. — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Will you call me?" she asked helplessly. "Will you call me again, Evan?" "Well of course I will," he said, looking back… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“The hell with this aching, suffering, callow, half-assed delusion that he was in "love" with her. The hell with "love" anyway, and… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“There was probably nothing to be done about a woman like this. Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.” — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about her, and… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“In the East, he then believed, a man went to college not for vocational training but in disciplined search for wisdom and beauty, and… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us. — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“And you know what else I used to love? I loved to watch you get into your car and drive away - just because… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“The movies were wonderful because they took you out of yourself, and at the same time they gave you a sense of being whole.… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love. — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“It had been easy to decide in favor of love on Bethune Street, in favor of walking proud and naked on the grass rug… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk. — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an insomniac's dread… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“There she was, lying on a single bed in a room so small that there wasn't even space for a chair, and the first… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
