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“Remember parts of your body are scattered in water all over the earth. Know land is made from you.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“There is a kind of fighting that isn’t ugly. There is a way for anger to come out as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“I’m not sure it is possible to articulate grief through language. You can say, I was so sad I thought my bones would collapse. I thought I would die. But language always falls short of the body when it comes to the intensity of corporeal experience. The best we can do is bring language in relationship to corporeal experience-bring words close to the body-as close as possible. Close enough to shatter them. Or close enough to knock a body out. To bring language close to the intensity of experiences like love or death or grief or pain is to push on the affect of language. Its sounds and grunts and ecstatic noises. The ritual sense of language. Or the cry.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water