Lidia Yuknavitch Quotes

“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”

“I will be forever grateful to Dora Brooking, for not only spotting my light bulb but also helping me turn up the wattage.”

“I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.”

“I just want my stories to be mine.”

“There's a girl calm people don't know about. It's a girl teen standstill. A motionless peace. It doesn't come from anywhere but inside us, and it only lasts for a few years. It's born from being a not woman yet. It's free flowing and invisible. It's the eye of the violent storm you call my teenage daughter. In this place we are undisturbed by all the moronic things you think about us. Our voices like rain falling. We are serene. Smooth. With more perfect hair and skin than you will ever again know. Daughters of Eve.”

“I only know that when I study mathematics, I transport myself to another world, a world of exquisite beauty and truth. And in that world I am the person I like to be.”

“There are some secrets darker than witchcraft." - Aunt Dora”

“Your tongue is moving my King but the words are not making their way to my ears”

“Wisdom comes in the silence of one's chaos”

“You are the earth, my dear grandson, and just like it takes everything without complaining, so have you shown us today that you will take everything in kind, and there's no greater title than this.”