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“It's never too late to be wise. Find someone who makes your feel like you're coming home.”
― 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, bone

“You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry.”
― 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, 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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“Do not shout for silence. do not shout too loud there will always be birds outside a closed window”
― 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