bone Quotes

“Self expression is a tricky
thing. Just as you start to feel
comfortable with yourself after years
of not, you then have to justify
yourself to other people.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“If you are afraid to write it,
that's a good sign.
I suppose you know when you're
writing the
truth when you're terrified.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“If I’m entirely honest, and you say I must be I want to stay with you all afternoon evening, night and tomorrow pressed into you so tightly that we don’t know whose belly made what sound, whose heart it is that is thumping like that until I don’t know if the sweat on my chest is yours or mine or ours.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“The pastor makes twenty-four
references to hell
in the sermon at church and forgets
to talk
about love.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“and anyway,
there will always be your breath
which, hard as you try,
you cant do without
you cant run away from.
There will always your heart
beating
stronger and louder
the harder, the further
you run.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Smiling at devils is a useful, learned thing.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Maybe your life will work.
Most likely it won't at first
but that
will give you poetry.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“You are a beautiful danger. Do not force me to open up. Some books are bound tightly for years for reasons.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“When the blood in your body is
weary to flow,
when your bones are heavy though
hollow
if you have made it past thirty
celebrate
and if you haven't yet,
rejoice. Know that there is a time
coming in your life when dirt settles
and the patterns forma picture.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“It's never too late to be wise.
See how your spirit has been
fermenting.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Remember on the right night and
under the right light
any idea can seem like a good one
and love
love is mostly ill advised but always
brave.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“The worst thing about somebody who betrays you, somebody who turns out to be a completely different person to whom you first thought, is the love that you still feel in your heart for them, embedded so deeply into the narrow spaces of yourself that you cannot access it to try and remove it. He”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Do not go too far for peace and quiet do not run too far because the country can be as loud as the city too noisy in its stillness and anyway, there will always be your breath which, hard as you try, you cant do without you cant run away from. There will always be your heart beating stronger and louder the harder, the further you run.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“It is love. But I will not stay.
My father
was a long dark fairytale too.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“You are one of life's
anomalies
and this is
how I fell.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“You can't quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“See, nobody warns you about yourself.
The red in your eye.
The trap in your mouth.

The person who hurts you the most in the end will
be you.
Almost every time, you.

You'd better learn to forgive yourself.
Forgive yourself instantly.
It's a skill you're going to need until you die.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Just because you do it doesn’t mean you always will.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“intro I am the tall dark stranger those warnings prepared you for.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“what is now will soon be past Just because you do it doesn’t mean you always will. Whether you’re dancing dust or breathing light you’re never exactly the same, twice.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“The most important thing to do is not to worry. The lines on your face will never stop the sun from coming up. Your tears cannot affect the weather.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“plus there is that feeling you get when you catch up with yourself.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“See, they never held you back. It was you, only you.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Thank Goodness I have nearly
unlearned
folding my desire into itself
being afraid to claim it.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Truth is a beauty, whether pretty or not.
Love doesn't always mean you should stay.
Sometimes the truth has to punch you, twice.
Love doesn't always mean you should stay.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Before you are dismantled, fixed and broke again you are not yet a lover.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“There are not nearly enough distractions and it can all get too bloody silent, which leaves room for dangerous things, like thinking. I”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“something about the way black women hold your heart. You can leave them all you like but you can’t stay gone.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Thank heavens you’re resetting ever setting and resetting.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“I suppose you know you’re writing the truth when you’re terrified.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone