Lidia Yuknavitch Quotes
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In water, like in books—you can leave your life.
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I just want my stories to be mine.
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This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little berserk.…
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Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle, and…
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Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a…
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You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when…
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I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.
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Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.
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We live through sound and light—through our technologies.
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I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law…
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Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.
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Words carry oceans on their small backs.
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Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief
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Make up stories until you find one you can live with.
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The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.
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Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and…
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I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.
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I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos…
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People - I mean couples - don't like to talk much about fighting. It's not attractive. No one likes to admit it or describe it…
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So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories…
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