Quotes By Letter: Y

“'I love you,' she whispered.
'You hurt me,' I said.
'Same thing,' she retorted.
We've hardly been separated since.”

-The Story of Junk, Linda Yablonsky

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“There lies the beauty: I'm done with thinking. All it ever did was make me cry.”

-The Story of Junk, Linda Yablonsky

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“You are more in love with the desire, than the desired.”

-Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession, Irvin Yalom

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“Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.”

-Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others, William Butler Yeats

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“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”

-The Second Coming, William Butler Years

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“Since first we saw the light,
And when we talked of growing up
Knew that we'd halved a soul
And fell the one in t'other's arms
That we might make it whole.”

-The Tower, William Butler Years

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“Our whole world is nothing but a world of grief and misery, and its inhabitants are nothing but grieving and miserable people. The living beings on this earth are all destined for slaughter. The azure heaven and the round earth are no more than a great slaughter-yard, a great prison.”

-K'ang Yu-Wei

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“At times, things still seem so peripheral around me; when I turn to look at something, it jerks out of my line of sight. I can't always bring the world into focus. I know life is going on: Cars are being washed, people are going to work, houses are being built, other babies are being born, but it isn't always possible to reconcile myself to the reality of these happening. It's the strangest sensation of disconnection, as if I'm existing on a slightly separate plane from the rest of the world.”

-The Kind of Love that Saves You, Amy Yurk

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“The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”

-Yves St. Laurent

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