Yuknavitch Book Quotes

#1. He treated ... my scarred as shit past and body as chapters of a book he wanted to hold in his hands and finish.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#2. Every life has a soundtrack.

Jodi Picoult

#3. And this was known as that greatest of treasures, which is Hope. It was a good way of getting poorer really very quickly, and staying poor. It could be you. But it wouldn't be.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I'm a simple man with a complex mind.

Me

#5. Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

Nikki Gemmell

#6. The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender, I might just want to drink my latte and buy pretty shoes and write books about girls who marry, die, or go insane, then go get my nails done.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#8. 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 hide out in our houses, succumbing to infotainment and the ease of an available latte, turning off our brains and emotions. Books breed desire.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#9. If you have ever fucked up in your life, or if the great river of sadness that runs through us all has touched you, then this book is for you. So thank you for the collective energy it takes to write in the face of culture. I can feel you.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#10. My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

Armand Hammer

#11. (Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
-David Levithan (Every Day)

David Levithan

#12. No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

Ellen Glasgow

#13. People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.

Adrian McKinty

#14. I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Norman MacCaig

#15. It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life had I not chased down a Ph.D. I've thought about that a lot ... MAYBE I would have found the same books on my own, but I can't know for sure.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#16. For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. Memories fluttered about her mind, of days that had passed and died and were never to return.

Lisa Jewell