Yesteryear Quotes

“The way some women so willingly compromised every ounce of themselves in the name of building a life for themselves that they didn’t enjoy.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“These women wanted—no, they needed—perfection from me. After all, the tighter the stitching, the more soothing it is to pick apart at the seams.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“But that’s something I’ve learned in the years since I left the ranch: you cannot change people who refuse to be changed. You can only love them. So here it is, all the love I have to give, pressed into the pages of this book.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“All men wanted to become legends. It was so embarrassing.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Another long drive back home, through the mountains and past the farms and down the long dirt road to the nightmare—I mean dream—of my own making, the world I molded with my own bare hands. Playdough husband, playdough children, playdough life.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“The goal of an influencer is not to be lovable, and it is not to be unbearable. The goal is to be both at once. In other words: addicting.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“A voice in my head, echoing softly: America hates angry women. The Lord hates angry women. You hate angry women. Do not be an angry woman.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“It’s all some vital game, isn’t it? No—more than a game. It’s the long, golden string of insincerity that threads together the entire human race: a shared agreement between women to insist back and forth in endless conversation that this thing we spend our whole lives preparing for—this thing we were born for—is anywhere close to what we thought it would be.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“And please give my husband a spine. I’m tired of him needing to borrow mine.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Want to blow through five million dollars so quickly it makes your head spin? Buy a fucking farm.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“There comes a point in every marriage when a woman realizes that the man she married is a freak.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“I am starting to think that church might just be another word for people.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“if you wanted to be a wealthy Christian woman and maintain good standing, you needed to publicly disavow your luxuries in order to maintain possession of them.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“We should get rolling,” a producer adds. “Or we’re going to lose the light.” I roll my eyes. “I’ve spent far too much of my life chasing the light.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Everything would have been fine if I’d grown up with a strong father figure in my life, I thought calmly. As soon as I thought this, though, I felt immediately certain that it wasn’t true.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“this was the world I was born into: a world where good Christian women moonlighted as crisis managers for their good Christian men.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“America hates women. What a comfort to remember. It is”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Clementine started talking about oceans and cities. She wanted to go to California. She wanted to see the Pacific. As a form of compromise, I started taking her to Target once a month.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“There comes a point in every marriage when a woman realizes that the man she married is a freak. This is inevitable. It cannot be avoided. The only real question in the matter is what type of freak your husband will be—”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“The goal of an influencer is not to be lovable”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“The boys would keep us fed when we were old and feeble, I liked to say, but the girls? They would dance around our wheelchairs, toss rose petals over our graves.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Mama wants a biscuit,” she says. “Mama can wait until dinner,” the older girl replies.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“A lesson it had taken me much longer to learn: sometimes the love of strangers is much more terrifying than the hate.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“How much beauty you've missed. Because it really is beautiful: this future you prayed we would never get the chance to see. I think you'd like it if you gave it a chance. But that's something I've learned in the years since I left the ranch: you cannot change people who refuse to be changed”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“I’d found myself in a highly claustrophobic holding tank for rich kids. An artificially intelligent Eden: a warm”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Someone told me once that the mark of a good career is characterized by one’s ability to attain the rare kind of employment that’s meaningful enough to justify the time you spend away from loved ones. What a privilege to have finally gotten the job”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“As I watched myself on the screen, I felt like I was watching another woman I used to know. Offline Natalie. Ugly and sharp and awkward and old. Like some fairy-tale witch. What was she doing here? Who let this woman online?”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“I didn’t know what to do, how to act, what to say. Online, offline. Neither version of myself was prepared for this moment. My head felt dizzy, out of control, like a spinning top.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“All of it appeared to me as a series of tasks to be accomplished each day”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“A trade must take place for this life to enter the world. As my body slowly halved open like a peach”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear