“He was big and sturdy, with a heavy jaw and a voice that made her want to curl up and ride in… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying. — Richard Yates Death Copy Share Image
if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be… — Richard Yates Alone Copy Share Image
“How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and their button-down collars and their… — Richard Yates Clouds Copy Share Image
“She cried because she'd had such high, high hopes about the Wheelers tonight and now she was terribly, terribly, terribly disappointed. She… — Richard Yates High hopes Copy Share Image
He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized… — Richard Yates Cry Copy Share Image
Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x… — Richard Yates Business Copy Share Image
“He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect… — Richard Yates Art Copy Share Image
“Then he was gone, and Prentice was alone in a silence that rang with all his shrill, unspoken words. He was so… — Richard Yates Pink flower Copy Share Image
“How can you talk that way? Frank, has it gotten so bad that you've lost all your belief in yourself?” — Richard Yates Belief in yourself Copy Share Image
“The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut… — Richard Yates Grief Copy Share Image
“For a year she found an exquisite pain - almost pleasure - in facing the world as if she didn't care. Look… — Richard Yates Pain Copy Share Image
“So it hadn’t been wrong or dishonest of her to say no this morning, when he asked if she hated him, any… — Richard Yates Face to face Copy Share Image
What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to… — Richard Yates Difficult Copy Share Image
“The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut… — Richard Yates Cry 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 Time Copy Share Image
“She quickly took a drink to hide her mouth. That mannerism had never changed: whenever Sarah was embarrassed, after she'd told a… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their… — Richard Yates Happy life Copy Share Image
Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the… — Richard Yates Alignment Copy Share Image
...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and “We’ve got to be together in this thing” when you meant… — Richard Yates Darkness Copy Share Image
“I want to retain my own identity. Therefore the thing I’m most anxious to avoid is any kind of work that can… — Richard Yates Making money Copy Share Image
Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Art Copy Share Image
“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious… — Richard Yates Failure Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases. — Richard Yates Every man Copy Share Image
