142 Quotes by Lidia Yuknavitch

is a way for anger to come out 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. When I watch Andy work the heavy bag, or work his body to drop doing mixed martial arts, I see that anger can go somewhere - out and away from a body - like an energy let loose and given form. Like my junk comes out in art.

What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl.

One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are, and to live without belief-that is a fate more terrible than dying.

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isn’t it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone.

I was a woman who thought of dead things. All the time. I couldn’t help it.

my parents Oedipal fakers

there is no girl we are not always already making into a woman from the moment she is born — making a city in the dirt next to the boot of a man. It could be rage or love in his feet. The girl could be me or any other girl.

As Earth's resources dwindle, technology is seized by those who kill best