All Lidia Yuknavitch Quotes
- In water, like in books—you can leave your life. Book
- I just want my stories to be mine. Inspirational
- 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.… Admit
- 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… Accompanying
- 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… All
- 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… Admire
- I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body. Body
- Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would. Look
- We live through sound and light—through our technologies. Inspirational
- 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… Any
- Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run. All
- Words carry oceans on their small backs. Backs
- Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief Delirium
- Make up stories until you find one you can live with. Find
- The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands. All
- 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… All
- I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me. Alone
- 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… Afraid
- 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… Admiration
- 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… Angry
- I'd say art is with you. All around you. I'd say when there doesn't seem to be anyone else, there is art. I'd say you… All