“The movies were wonderful because they took you out of yourself, and at the same time they gave you a sense of… — 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… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“my first wife passed away in the spring of—” and for a moment he is touched with terror. The spring of what?… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort. — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Proving, proving; and for no other reason than that he was married to a woman who had somehow managed to put him… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“And maybe things like this really did get better of their own accord, if you gave them time; maybe all you could… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“It took Emily a long time to realize that Sarah was dead. Sometimes, waking from a dream of childhood filled with Sarah's… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“She had found in the past that a voluptuously long, hot shower cold be made to seem almost as health-giving as a… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“I don't think about growing old," she said. "I know you don't. That's one of the things I admire about you, Alice.… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“All her life, from the time she was eight or nine years old, Gloria had relied on a neat, nearly automatic little… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“It reminded her too, time and again, of her own susceptibility to panic and her unfathomable dread of being alone.” — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will! — 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
