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Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Photographs replace memory. Photographs replace lived experience. History.

Photographs replace memory. Photographs replace lived experience. History.

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

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

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: I am a woman who talks to herself and lies.

I am a woman who talks to herself and lies.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: To move violently and beautifully through skin, to enter matter-isn't that evolution's climax?

To move violently and beautifully through skin, to enter matter-isn't that evolution's climax?

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Out of the sad sack of sad shit that was my life, I made a wordhouse.

Out of the sad sack of sad shit that was my life, I made a wordhouse.

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

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

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Later, someone will come back and get her and take her back home.

Later, someone will come back and get her and take her back home.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: I never felt crazy, I just felt gone away.

I never felt crazy, I just felt gone away.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Dead infants don't get urns unless you pay for them - and then they stuff crap in besides just ashes to cover the smallness.

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 quotes: In water, like in books - you can leave your life.

In water, like in books - you can leave your life.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.

It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.

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

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

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: how to make language go strange and vertical to make a poem. How to trust the moon.

how to make language go strange and vertical to make a poem. How to trust the moon.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: We drank everything his favorite poet drank-Bukowski- and like Bukowski's women, I matched him drink for drink.We drank each other blind.

We drank everything his favorite poet drank-Bukowski- and like Bukowski's women, I matched him drink for drink.
We drank each other blind.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: It is only inside abstraction and expression and chaos that he is alive.

It is only inside abstraction and expression and chaos that he is alive.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.

I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Russia will make new allegiances. Siberia, unfreezing, will become a land grab.

Russia will make new allegiances. Siberia, unfreezing, will become a land grab.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Words carry oceans on their small backs.

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: You know, every street in Paris is wet. Every person in Paris has a dog. Every hand in Paris holds a cigarette. Every mouth in Paris is a kiss.

You know, every street in Paris is wet. Every person in Paris has a dog. Every hand in Paris holds a cigarette. Every mouth in Paris is a kiss.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt.

We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.

Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Superpowers will topple and reorganize.

Superpowers will topple and reorganize.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.

Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: China and India will become something we never imagined.

China and India will become something we never imagined.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Little tragedies are difficult to keep straight.

Little tragedies are difficult to keep straight.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: We live through sound and light - through our technologies.

We live through sound and light - through our technologies.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: You must let it glide on surfaces so you don't make a mess of things

You must let it glide on surfaces so you don't make a mess of things

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: my parents Oedipal fakers

my parents Oedipal fakers

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Because in loving his darkness I found my own.

Because in loving his darkness I found my own.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We

A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: France will take on a militant tone, leaving its beautiful cultural tower to chase power after all these years.

France will take on a militant tone, leaving its beautiful cultural tower to chase power after all these years.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: But it is the world of men that creates pure destruction. And this is a truth we cannot bear: Since we bear them into the world, we cannot kill them.

But it is the world of men that creates pure destruction. And this is a truth we cannot bear: Since we bear them into the world, we cannot kill them.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Love isn't what anyone said. It's worse. You can die from it at any moment.

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

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.

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

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: He treated ... my scarred as shit past and body as chapters of a book he wanted to hold in his hands and finish.

He treated ... my scarred as shit past and body as chapters of a book he wanted to hold in his hands and finish.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: We laughed the laugh of women untethered, finally, from their origins.

We laughed the laugh of women untethered, finally, from their origins.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

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

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Aren't we all just shooting for a life where art matters?

Aren't we all just shooting for a life where art matters?

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Pity the small backs of children, he heard her saying. They carry death for us the second they are born.

Pity the small backs of children, he heard her saying. They carry death for us the second they are born.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Everybody uses everybody until we're all just a bunch of used up shit sacks waiting to go to dirt.

Everybody uses everybody until we're all just a bunch of used up shit sacks waiting to go to dirt.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: You have to be ready to be anyone in moments of danger or love.

You have to be ready to be anyone in moments of danger or love.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Germany will forgive itself so much that it returns to arms.

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

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.

The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: see the stories of women, but they are always stuck inside the stories of men. Why is that?

see the stories of women, but they are always stuck inside the stories of men. Why is that?

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing out.

Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing out.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: I learned from an early age that if it feels bad, it's good, and if it feels good, you are bad

I learned from an early age that if it feels bad, it's good, and if it feels good, you are bad

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: It is not a perfect place, America. It's simply a way out of this story.

It is not a perfect place, America. It's simply a way out of this story.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Canada and Russia and Greenland will stake new claims in once-frozen waters.

Canada and Russia and Greenland will stake new claims in once-frozen waters.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.

Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: It seems important to them that he is a kind of villain in their stories. This seems American.

It seems important to them that he is a kind of villain in their stories. This seems American.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: I just want my stories to be mine.

I just want my stories to be mine.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: She is at a crossroads: a child's violent will to survive lodged in her chest where her heart should be, but an utter indifference along with it.

She is at a crossroads: a child's violent will to survive lodged in her chest where her heart should be, but an utter indifference along with it.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: Africa will become an out-of-reach commodity instead of the expendable refuse heap we've treated her as.

Africa will become an out-of-reach commodity instead of the expendable refuse heap we've treated her as.

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: And memory has no syntax.

And memory has no syntax.

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

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

Lidia Yuknavitch quotes: We do what our rising-star photographer failed to do. What all photojournalists fail to do. We go get her out of that death of a life before she dies.

We do what our rising-star photographer failed to do. What all photojournalists fail to do. We go get her out of that death of a life before she dies.