Katie Yee > Quotes

“You're never too old to be afraid of what you can't see.”
― Katie Yee, Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

“I could ride shotgun with his body in the driver’s seat for the rest of my life. He the tinman, and I Dorothy-just a girl who wants to go home but doesn’t know how to get there anymore.”
― Katie Yee, Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

“It's the kind of spring day that warns you that a hot summer is coming. It forces you to feel your body: the way your sweat runs down your hairline and your thighs stick to every seat. It's one of those days when you look at perfectly un-sweaty people wearing blue jeans and wonder where their glands are. You are painfully aware that you are thirsty and gross.”
― Katie Yee

“They say the intensity of your emotions dulls with age, but the complexity of emotions increases—more mixed feelings, things that are bittersweet.”
― Katie Yee, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

“She was the only one in the family who knew how to operate a camera, which means she took the photo herself. She liked the tangibility of memory.”
― Katie Yee, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

“It hurts in an unexpected way, like doing yoga for the first time in a long while and realizing you can’t bend the way you thought you could; a new soreness.”
― Katie Yee, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

“Even when he’s packing up his things or taking the kids someplace, even in the middle of this shit storm, there are little moments when I see the Sam I knew. When he says something funny or makes this pensive facial expression I have quietly adored or hums a song we used to dance to. He peeks through the spaces in between the dense forest that has grown between us, shoots through like dappled sunlight. In moments like these, it’s like nothing has happened. No Maggie. No kids even. The way that certain angles of sun and warmth can hit you exactly like they did in your youth; sun that has been untouched by time. Just like he said: he was the sky, and I was the soil, and the weather was his attempt to meet me. This is when the heartbreak hits me hardest. When he reminds me of the people we used to be, when we had so much in front of us. This is when I most want to let him in on things. He transforms back into someone I want to tell my life to. And then something shifts in the atmosphere, and the moment—that person—is gone.”
― Katie Yee, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

“But I don’t even want to try; I like the surprise of it. I want to meet them new every day.”
― Katie Yee, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

“Besides, I'm reluctant to pluck my own flesh and blood and place them there, in my stories. I don't want to spin them into something against their will.”
― Katie Yee, Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar