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Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Any child is stronger than a mother, since the love we have for our children could kill us.”

101. “Any child is stronger than a mother, since the love we have for our children could kill us.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Germany will forgive itself so much that it returns to arms.”

102. “Germany will forgive itself so much that it returns to arms.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “If we look at history – those of us who study it, who can remember it – we understand the reason why those who come to power swiftly, amid extreme national crises, are so dangerous: during such crises, we all turn into children aching for a good father. And the truth is, in our fear and despair, we’ll take any father. Even if his furor is dangerous. It’s as if humans can’t understand how to function without a father. Perhaps especially then, we mistake heroic agency for its dark other.”

103. “If we look at history – those of us who study it, who can remember it – we understand the reason why those who come to power swiftly, amid extreme national crises, are so dangerous: during such crises, we all turn into children aching for a good father. And the truth is, in our fear and despair, we’ll take any father. Even if his furor is dangerous. It’s as if humans can’t understand how to function without a father. Perhaps especially then, we mistake heroic agency for its dark other.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “When they own languages, she thought, we are terrorists. When we own them, we are revolutionaries.”

104. “When they own languages, she thought, we are terrorists. When we own them, we are revolutionaries.”

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Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “It was the raging stubbornness of living organisms that simply would not give in.”

105. “It was the raging stubbornness of living organisms that simply would not give in.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Books continued to house me in a way that the world did not.”

106. “Books continued to house me in a way that the world did not.”

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Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “And the world will continue to be melted by a sun we’ve crossed terribly with our progress.”

107. “And the world will continue to be melted by a sun we’ve crossed terribly with our progress.”

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Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “We can’t handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what’s done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant.”

108. “We can’t handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what’s done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form of memoir that creates an eerie reader space of intimacy that is only “real” in the space of the text.”

109. “To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form of memoir that creates an eerie reader space of intimacy that is only “real” in the space of the text.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Dead infants don’t get urns unless you pay for them – and then they stuff crap in besides just ashes to cover the smallness.”

110. “Dead infants don’t get urns unless you pay for them – and then they stuff crap in besides just ashes to cover the smallness.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Through the doorway to choice and hope were the saddest girls I have ever met. Not because someone beat them or because someone molested them or because they were poor or pregnant or even because they put needles in their arms or pills in their mouths or weed in their lungs or alcohol down their ever-constricting throats. They were the saddest girls I have ever met because every one of them had it in her to lose a shot at a self and become her mother.”

111. “Through the doorway to choice and hope were the saddest girls I have ever met. Not because someone beat them or because someone molested them or because they were poor or pregnant or even because they put needles in their arms or pills in their mouths or weed in their lungs or alcohol down their ever-constricting throats. They were the saddest girls I have ever met because every one of them had it in her to lose a shot at a self and become her mother.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Love isn’t what anyone said. It’s worse. You can die from it at any moment.”

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

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “I was a woman who thought of dead things. All the time. I couldn’t help it.”

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

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Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Do not do not do not behave “like an immigrant.” Do not out yourself. Language is a funny thing, she thought. It opens and closes. It trips you like a crack in the sidewalk. Keep moving or die.”

114. “Do not do not do not behave “like an immigrant.” Do not out yourself. Language is a funny thing, she thought. It opens and closes. It trips you like a crack in the sidewalk. Keep moving or die.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Always we were making. Making love, making trouble, making art.”

115. “Always we were making. Making love, making trouble, making art.”

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Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Even angry girls can be moved to tears.”

116. “Even angry girls can be moved to tears.”

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Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Briefly and without any drama I wished I was dead.”

117. “Briefly and without any drama I wished I was dead.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “How do people last together.”

118. “How do people last together.”

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Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “All I was was my body.”

119. “All I was was my body.”

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Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Sometimes the choices we make come from jealous lame petty places. But they are as real as it gets.”

120. “Sometimes the choices we make come from jealous lame petty places. But they are as real as it gets.”

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Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “All of the rest in July he raged. And August. Everyday when he came home from work, he’d find another way to fill the house with rage, shake the walls with shame, while the little women took it and took it. Sometimes I thought he might kill one of us. But I was not afraid.”

121. “All of the rest in July he raged. And August. Everyday when he came home from work, he’d find another way to fill the house with rage, shake the walls with shame, while the little women took it and took it. Sometimes I thought he might kill one of us. But I was not afraid.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Every page of words was a chance for escape, a chance to suicide into a life where the brain was something more than a heavy bundle of gray worms, into a place where the body lost its origins and confines and mutated endlessly. Whole worlds cupped between my hands.”

122. “Every page of words was a chance for escape, a chance to suicide into a life where the brain was something more than a heavy bundle of gray worms, into a place where the body lost its origins and confines and mutated endlessly. Whole worlds cupped between my hands.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “What it amounts to is, I met that young woman, I met that girl, out of order. Stories don’t care how we tell them. Stories take any shape they want. Not all stories happen with a beginning, a middle, and an end. I’ve come to understand maybe they never do. End, that is.”

123. “What it amounts to is, I met that young woman, I met that girl, out of order. Stories don’t care how we tell them. Stories take any shape they want. Not all stories happen with a beginning, a middle, and an end. I’ve come to understand maybe they never do. End, that is.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch Quote: “Language! What a thunderous mercy, huh?”

124. “Language! What a thunderous mercy, huh?”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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