“Not the prettiest girl in the world, maybe, but cute and quick and fun to have around.” — Richard Yates Revolutionary-road Copy Share Image
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein… — Richard Yates Humans Copy Share Image
“Will you call me?" she asked helplessly. "Will you call me again, Evan?" "Well of course I will," he said, looking back… — Richard Yates Love Copy Share Image
“I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahead of me as… — Richard Yates First time Copy Share Image
“I don't think about growing old," she said. "I know you don't. That's one of the things I admire about you, Alice.… — Richard Yates Growing old 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 Grief Copy Share Image
“I know I had it - I could feel it, the way you feel blood in your veins - and now I… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“The hell with reality! Let's have a whole bunch of cute little winding roads and cute little houses painted white and pink… — Richard Yates Winding road Copy Share Image
“i mean talk about decadence," he declared, "how decadent can a society get? Look at it this way. This country's probably the… — Richard Yates Community Copy Share Image
“Her voice had been the only sound in the room for ten minutes or more, and it had been continuous. She seemed… — Richard Yates Silence Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart. — Richard Yates Crush Copy Share Image
“Now you’ve said it. The hopeless emptiness. Hell, plenty of people are on to the emptiness part; out where I used to… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Whoever said you can't love ridiculous things? God knows i love you, and you're the most ridiculous woman I ever met!” — Richard Yates God knows Copy Share Image
“The only trouble at first was that one small, cold-sober part of her mind floated free of the rest of her; it… — Richard Yates Love you forever Copy Share Image
“Because he was closer to her here than in the office, and less shy than in the car, he could see clearly… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“All her life, from the time she was eight or nine years old, Gloria had relied on a neat, nearly automatic little… — Richard Yates Life Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn’t really… — Richard Yates Life Copy Share Image
“The hell with this aching, suffering, callow, half-assed delusion that he was in "love" with her. The hell with "love" anyway, and… — Richard Yates Love Copy Share Image
“It reminded her too, time and again, of her own susceptibility to panic and her unfathomable dread of being alone.” — Richard Yates Fear Copy Share Image
“He turned off all the hot water and turned up the cold, a thing he hadn’t done in years. The shock of… — Richard Yates Hot water Copy Share Image
Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. — Richard Yates Emptiness Copy Share Image
It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and… — Richard Yates Coffee Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn’t really… — Richard Yates Buying a house Copy Share Image
