142 Quotes by Lidia Yuknavitch

This is the first language of your body. It is the word ne. When you bleed each month, as when the moon comes and goes in its journey, you leave the world of men. You enter the body of all women, who are connected to all of nature.

Love isn’t what anyone said. It’s worse. You can die from it at any moment.

Little tragedies are difficult to keep straight.

I’m not the story you made of me.

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.

He made me feel like someone somebody would risk something to choose.

Everyone’s last wish turned out to be love: may I be consumed by the simplicity and purity of a love story, any love, base love or heroic love or transgressive love or love that is a blind and lame and ridiculous lie – anything the opposite of alone and lonely and sexless, and the absence of someone to care about or talk to.

Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

I never felt crazy, I just felt gone away.