Lidia Yuknavitch famous quotes

03-25-2025

Words carry oceans on their small backs.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Ocean
Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle, and end, with its transcendent end, let go, we are the poem, we have come miles of life, we have survived this far to tell you, go on, go on.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Letting Go #Stories #Goes On
I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Writing #Not Alone
Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Running #Fighting #Thinking
I'd say art is with you. All around you. I'd say when there doesn't seem to be anyone else, there is art. I'd say you can love art how you wish to be loved. And I'd say art is a lifeline to the rest of us - we are out here. You are not alone. There is nothing about you that scares us. There is nothing unlovable about you, either.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Art #Writing #Wish
Make up stories until you find one you can live with.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Stories
So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Life #Beautiful #Dark
People - I mean couples - don't like to talk much about fighting. It's not attractive. No one likes to admit it or describe it or lay claim to it. We want our coupledoms to look... sanitized and pretty and worthy of admiration. And anger blasts are ugly. But, I think that is a crock. There is a kind of fighting that isn't ugly. There is a way for anger to come our as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Couple #Mean #Fighting
I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Beautiful #Heart #Loss
I just want my stories to be mine.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Stories #Want
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

#Art #Book #House
The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Rocks #Hands #Water
You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Believe #People #Feelings
Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Laughter #Grief #Delirium
This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little berserk. It's threatening. Deeply. Because if I have to admit how profoundly I need kindness? I have to admit that I hid the me who deserves it down in a sadness well.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Kindness #Sadness #Thinking
Your life doesnâ€™t happen in any kind of order. Events donâ€™t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. Itâ€™s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Order #Water #Wish
I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law or spray-paint walls. A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We do it to erase and remake our origins in their own images. To say, I too was here.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Jobs #Wall #College
We live through sound and lightâ€”through our technologies.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Technology #Light #Sound
Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Different #Looks #Sometimes
I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Childhood #Leaving #Body
In water, like in booksâ€”you can leave your life.
-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Book #Water

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