11 Quotes by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Self expression is a trickything. Just as you start to feelcomfortable with yourself after yearsof not, you then have to justifyyourself to other people.

Every time I travel, I meet myself a little more.

You will come away bruised.You will come away bruisedbut this will give you poetry.

Loving someone who hates themselvesis a special kind of violence.A fight inside the bones.A war within the blood.

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

We're thinking, does life owe us anything. Did we get it wrong? And time is an animal, man. The years. Time is killing us it has us in its teeth.

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.

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

If youwere married to yourselfcould you stay with yourself?My housewould be frightening and wild.