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“He treated...my scarred as shit past and body as chapters of a book he wanted to hold in his hands and finish.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“We laughed the laugh of women untethered, finally, from their origins.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“Because in loving his darkness I found my own.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“I considered quitting graduate school. I paid my ticket, I rode the ride. Right? Half the people I started with quit. I did not have to continue toward scholar. But something wouldn’t let me. Some deep wrestling match going on inside my rib house and gray matter. Some woman in me I’d never met. You know who she was? My intellect. When I opened the door and there she stood, with her sassy red reading glasses and fitted skirt and leather bookbag, I thought, who the hell are you? Crouching into a defensive posture and looking at her warily out of the corner of my eye. Watch out, woman. To which she replied, I’m Lidia. I have a desire toward language and knowledge that will blow your mind.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water