Lidia Yuknavitch Quotes

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• In water, like in books—you can leave your life.
• I just want my stories to be mine.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.
• Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.
• We live through sound and light—through our technologies.
• 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…
• Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.
• Words carry oceans on their small backs.
• Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief
• Make up stories until you find one you can live with.
• The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.
• 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…
• I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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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