“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about… — 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… — Richard Yates Fitness Copy Share Image
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us. — Richard Yates God Copy Share Image
“And you know what else I used to love? I loved to watch you get into your car and drive away -… — Richard Yates Love 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 Bones 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… — Richard Yates Cinema 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… — Richard Yates Ability to love 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 City hall Copy Share Image
Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk. — Richard Yates Benefits 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 Death 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… — Richard Yates Long legs Copy Share Image
People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering... — Richard Yates Change Copy Share Image
Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman. — Richard Yates Hard work Copy Share Image
“You still felt that life was passing you by? Sort of. I still had this idea that there was a whole world… — Richard Yates First time Copy Share Image
“He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had… — Richard Yates Goals Copy Share Image
“Rachel became slowly aware now, even while talking and listening to her own voice, that there might well be something universal about… — Richard Yates Mother 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 Marriage Copy Share Image
She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank… — Richard Yates Aunt Copy Share Image
“Oh-h-h-h— Hidey, tidey, Christ Almighty Who the hell are we? Flim, flam, God damn We’re the infantry…” — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Don't you see what I'm saying? It's got nothing to do with definite, measurable talents - it's your very essence that's being… — Richard Yates Life Copy Share Image
Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was… — Richard Yates Certain Copy Share Image
“I don’t care if it takes you five years of doing nothing at all; I don’t care if you decide after five… — Richard Yates Five years Copy Share Image
“Rachel came carefully downstairs one morning, in a dressing gown that wasn't quite clean, and stood at the brink of the living… — Richard Yates Friday morning Copy Share Image
