Dora Quotes

“Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescence—just getting through to the real part of your life—but it's more than that. Sometimes your whole life happens in those years, and the rest of your life it's just the same story playing out with different characters. I could die tomorrow and have lived the main ups and downs of life. Pain. Loss. Love. And what you all so fondly refer to as wisdom. Wanna know the difference between adult wisdom and young adult wisdom? You have the ability to look back at your past and interpret it. I have the ability to look at my present and live it with my whole body.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“I just want my stories to be mine.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“It's a movie about everything. This world we live in. The bodies we're stuck with. The lives we get whether we want them or not. How hard you have to work just to get through a fucking day without killing yourself.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“There's a girl calm people don't know about. It's a girl teen standstill. A motionless peace. It doesn't come from anywhere but inside us, and it only lasts for a few years. It's born from being a not woman yet. It's free flowing and invisible. It's the eye of the violent storm you call my teenage daughter. In this place we are undisturbed by all the moronic things you think about us. Our voices like rain falling. We are serene. Smooth. With more perfect hair and skin than you will ever again know. Daughters of Eve.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“To the daughters of Eve, that they may teach men that love is not lechery, nor the simony of voluptuousness, but a joy that dwells in the highest and holiest regions of the terrestrial paradise, that they may make it the highest prize of virtue, the most glorious conquest of genius, the first force of human progress.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“Everybody uses everybody until we're all just a bunch of used up shit sacks waiting to go to dirt.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“We live through sound and light—through our technologies.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“You must let it glide on surfaces so you don't make a mess of things”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“Sadece babam ve aşırı tatlı bir şeyin salonda asılı kalmış kokusu. Çocukluk gibi.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“You have to be ready to be anyone in moments of danger or love.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“Havva’nın yılana kanan bir salak olduğunu hiçbir zaman düşünmedim. Bence Havva belalı bir tipti.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“Yüzümü saçlarına gömüyorum. Yağmur kokusu alıyorum.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“Ruandalı kahkahaları. Doğru duydunuz. O gülüşü de kaydettim. Hiç Ruandalı kahkahası duymadıysanız, güzel bir şeyi kaçırmışsınız demektir.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase

“Öööööğğğğğğğğ. Abi. Islak rüya gören çocuklar gibisin!
Kaç yaşındasın sen, on yedi falan mı?”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase