Yrsa Daley-Ward Quotes

#1. You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy.

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#2. The worst thing about somebody who betrays you, somebody who turns out to be a completely different person to whom you first thought, is the love that you still feel in your heart for them, embedded so deeply into the narrow spaces of yourself that you cannot access it to try and remove it. He

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#3. Loving someone who hates
themselves
is a special kind of violence.
A fight inside the bones.
A war within the blood.

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#4. you make me feel like myself again. Myself before I had any solid reasons to be anything else. Last night you gave me space to dream bigger than the single bed. You laughed in your sleep and I cried in mine and

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#5. Self expression is a tricky
thing. Just as you start to feel
comfortable with yourself after years
of not, you then have to justify
yourself to other people.

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#6. Maybe your life will work.
Most likely it won't at first
but that
will give you poetry.

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#7. Smiling at devils is a useful, learned thing.

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#8. It's never too late to be wise. Find someone who makes your feel like you're coming home.

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#9. The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.

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#10. You can't quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.

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#11. Remember on the right night and
under the right light
any idea can seem like a good one
and love
love is mostly ill advised but always
brave.

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#12. It's never too late to be wise.
See how your spirit has been
fermenting.

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#13. Just because you do it doesn't mean you always will.

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#14. It is love. But I will not stay.
My father
was a long dark fairytale too.

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#15. You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry.

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#16. and anyway,
there will always be your breath
which, hard as you try,
you cant do without
you cant run away from.
There will always your heart
beating
stronger and louder
the harder, the further
you run.

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#17. There are not nearly enough distractions and it can all get too bloody silent, which leaves room for dangerous things, like thinking. I

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#18. You are one of life's
anomalies
and this is
how I fell.

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#19. Thank Goodness I have nearly
unlearned
folding my desire into itself
being afraid to claim it.

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#20. The pastor makes twenty-four
references to hell
in the sermon at church and forgets
to talk
about love.

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#21. If you are afraid to write it,
that's a good sign.
I suppose you know when you're
writing the
truth when you're terrified.

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#22. You are a beautiful danger. Do not force me to open up. Some books are bound tightly for years for reasons.

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