Yrsa Daley-Ward Quotes & Sayings

The pastor makes twenty-four
references to hell
in the sermon at church and forgets
to talk
about love. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

It's never too late to be wise.
See how your spirit has been
fermenting. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

It's never too late to be wise. Find someone who makes your feel like you're coming home. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

Thank Goodness I have nearly
unlearned
folding my desire into itself
being afraid to claim it. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

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

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

Smiling at devils is a useful, learned thing. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

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

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

Maybe your life will work.
Most likely it won't at first
but that
will give you poetry. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

Loving someone who hates
themselves
is a special kind of violence.
A fight inside the bones.
A war within the blood. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

You are one of life's
anomalies
and this is
how I fell. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

you make me feel like myself again. Myself before I had any solid reasons to be anything else. Last night you gave me space to dream bigger than the single bed. You laughed in your sleep and I cried in mine and — Yrsa Daley-Ward

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

Just because you do it doesn't mean you always will. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

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

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

The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

It is love. But I will not stay.
My father
was a long dark fairytale too. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

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

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

You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

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