Lidia Quotes

“Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescence—just getting through to the real part of your life—but it's more than that. Sometimes your whole life happens in those years, and the rest of your life it's just the same story playing out with different characters. I could die tomorrow and have lived the main ups and downs of life. Pain. Loss. Love. And what you all so fondly refer to as wisdom. Wanna know the difference between adult wisdom and young adult wisdom? You have the ability to look back at your past and interpret it. I have the ability to look at my present and live it with my whole body.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“To the daughters of Eve, that they may teach men that love is not lechery, nor the simony of voluptuousness, but a joy that dwells in the highest and holiest regions of the terrestrial paradise, that they may make it the highest prize of virtue, the most glorious conquest of genius, the first force of human progress.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“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.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“You remind me that I'm alive,' she said, voice thick. 'You remind me that goodness can exist in the world.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“My mind found yours in the darkness. Across an ocean. No fancy crystal required. You think that's nothing?”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“To destroy monsters, we become monsters. Isn't that what they say?”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“I don't know how to wake up.

Open your eyes.

No shit.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“Lakini ukweli ni upi? Ukweli ni kwamba utajiri una changamoto nyingi kuupata na kuudumisha pia kuliko usomi na kwamba ukweli ni amani ya Mungu katika moyo wa mwanadamu. Heri msomi kuliko tajiri – Heri yule aliyesoma kuliko tajiri asiyesoma au yule aliyesoma kuliko vile alivyosoma tajiri au tajiri asiyesoma au aliyesoma lakini asiyekuwa na tamaa kabisa na dunia hii ambaye kukosa kwake tamaa na dunia hii kunamfanya msomi. Ndivyo Kristo anavyomaanisha. Si kwamba tajiri hawezi kuuona ufalme wa mbinguni. Ibrahimu, Isaka, Yakobo, Yusufu, Daudi, Sulemani, Yehoshafati, Hezekia, Zakayo, Yoana, Susana, na Lidia watauona ufalme wa mbinguni na walikuwa matajiri. Mali zao zilivyozidi hawakuangalia moyoni, hawakuwa na tamaa kabisa na dunia hii, bali walimtumaini Mungu kwa kila kitu walichokuwa nacho. Anaweza. Lakini asiipende dunia bali ayapende mambo ya ufalme wa Mungu kwa moyo wake wote.”
― Enock Maregesi

“A la inversa, para mí, de ella, lo que importaba era su presencia en mí.”
― Ricardo Piglia, Los diarios de Emilio Renzi I: Años de formación

“In a world full of enemies, you're my only friend.'

'Well, maybe I should give you friendship lessons, because you fucking blow at it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“Lesson one, don't shit on your friends when you have a bad day.'

'Right.'

'Lesson two. Your true friends won't mind when you do, so long as you own up to it and apologise. Usually in the form of buying them a beer.'

Another laugh, softer this time. 'I'll buy you a beer, then.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath