Sigurdardottir Yrsa Quotes

#1. I go to sea every other month. The accident happened during my time off, so I'd better be cell phone again before my next tour or I'll be off work for another two months. Unless #Quote by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

#2. Mother Nature had made an appalling error of judgement. #Quote by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

#3. ...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen. #Quote by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

#4. Smiling at devils is a useful, learned thing. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#5. There are not nearly enough distractions and it can all get too bloody silent, which leaves room for dangerous things, like thinking. I #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#6. It's never too late to be wise.
See how your spirit has been
fermenting. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#7. Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets. #Quote by Johanna Sigurdardottir

#8. Maybe your life will work.
Most likely it won't at first
but that
will give you poetry. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#9. What turns the milk sky pink?
Is it the sins of the world,
bleeding up into the atmosphere
reddening the clouds up above
or is it love. Could it be
love? Jesus Christ,
can there be love?
There will be more love,
says the sky,
There will be more love. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#10. See, nobody warns you about yourself.
The red in your eye.
The trap in your mouth.

The person who hurts you the most in the end will
be you.
Almost every time, you.

You'd better learn to forgive yourself.
Forgive yourself instantly.
It's a skill you're going to need until you die. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#11. If I'm entirely honest, and you say I must be I want to stay with you all afternoon evening, night and tomorrow pressed into you so tightly that we don't know whose belly made what sound, whose heart it is that is thumping like that until I don't know if the sweat on my chest is yours or mine or ours. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#12. Do the feelings ever leave? Or do you just learn to wrap them up into something to wear? #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#13. You are a beautiful danger. Do not force me to open up. Some books are bound tightly for years for reasons. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#14. and anyway,
there will always be your breath
which, hard as you try,
you cant do without
you cant run away from.
There will always your heart
beating
stronger and louder
the harder, the further
you run. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#15. If you are afraid to write it,
that's a good sign.
I suppose you know when you're
writing the
truth when you're terrified. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#16. It wasn't perfect. It isn't now. I still have days when I want to exit the system quicker then you can say, "don't you dare give up now", and you still have days where you can't even taste the sweetness in raw honey and neither one of us believes in pills. Days when I so want to kiss you but your mouth is sour and my thoughts are bitter and I'm angry…just mad, just crazy with it all. But we are each others home sweet home, Love. The roof is screwed on too tight at times and the walls of our purple house can pinch a little but my God, they are always warm. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#17. Remember on the right night and
under the right light
any idea can seem like a good one
and love
love is mostly ill advised but always
brave. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#18. Thank Goodness I have nearly
unlearned
folding my desire into itself
being afraid to claim it. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#19. It is love. But I will not stay.
My father
was a long dark fairytale too. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#20. It was in this atmosphere of war, heroism, and controversy that my wife's grandmother, Johanna Boel Sigurdardottir, met and fell in love with Samuel Emmett Hearn Jr. He was a gallant soldier, and she was a natural beauty. #Quote by Gudjon Bergmann

#21. The worst thing about somebody who betrays you, somebody who turns out to be a completely different person to whom you first thought, is the love that you still feel in your heart for them, embedded so deeply into the narrow spaces of yourself that you cannot access it to try and remove it. He #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#22. It's never too late to be wise. Find someone who makes your feel like you're coming home. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#23. You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#24. Time is an illusion, say the scientists. It is molecular, it is bendable or liquid, it is soldered metal; or it is droplets of memory. I imagine it looks like mercury, silver and elusive...Burn all the clocks. I am free. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#25. when it is but it ain't

Some of us love badly.
Sometimes the love is the type of love that implodes.
Folds in on itself. Eats its insides.
Turns wine to poison.
Behaves poorly in restaurants.
Drinks. Kisses other people.
Comes back to your bed at 4am smelling like everything outside.
Asks about your ex. Is jealous of your ex.
Thinks everyone a rival.

Some of us love others badly, love ourselves worse.
Some of us love horrid, love beastly.
Love sick love anti light.
Sometimes the love can't go home at night,
can't sleep with itself, cannot contain itself,
catches fire, destroys the stomach,
strips buildings, goes missing.
Punches. Smashes heirlooms.
Tells lies. The best lies. F*s around.
Writes poems, impresses people.
Chases lovers into corners.
Leaves them longing. Sea sick.
Says yes. Means anything but.
Tricks the body.
Kills the body.
Dances wild
and walks away, smiling. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#26. Just because you do it doesn't mean you always will. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#27. Loving someone who hates
themselves
is a special kind of violence.
A fight inside the bones.
A war within the blood. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#28. Is life hidden in the lining of our seams? Are we wearing it inside out? #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#29. I am somewhere else now. I am part human, part metaphysics, and I still haven't worked out which parts of me are which. I love this new form. I can feel space traveling through me. I am porous and wondrous and bold ... It's not that I loved to leave, rather that staying was always completely impossible. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#30. I cannot pull my mind off you
even though
I do not trust your hands. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#31. You are one of life's
anomalies
and this is
how I fell. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#32. If you
were married to yourself
could you stay with yourself?

My house
would be frightening and wild. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#33. Artichokes

Until you had been the last ones
sitting in the cafe on the corner and
she has kissed the dark rum from the
rim of your glass and schooled you in
the art of eating artichokes

until then,
you are not yet a woman.

Until you put soft leaf to lip
touch tongue to flesh,
bite the lobe,
swallow the juice
she says will purify you
until you open it up, sigh at the color,
see it's very middle and learn what
fingers are best at
until you reach further still
into that thick, hot heart
life has not yet started.

Before you had been promised.
Before she is a liar.
Before you are dismantled, fixed and
broke again you are not yet a lover.

Remember on the right night and
under the right light
any idea can seem like a good one
and love
love is mostly ill-advised but always
brave.

The most important thing to do is
not to worry. The lines on your face
will never stop the sun from coming
up. Your tears cannot affect the
weather. There are wars going on.
The one in your body is the only one
you can be sure of losing
or winning, then losing again.

You drink more water than rum these
days, don't you?
But you drink to her memory, don't
you?
And you only take artichokes in salad.
Never whole.
Not in a cafe on a dusky street at
midnigh #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#34. You may not run away
from the thing that you are.
because it comes and comes and comes as
sure as you breathe.
As certain. The thing is deep inside your linings,
way down in the marrow. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#35. The pastor makes twenty-four
references to hell
in the sermon at church and forgets
to talk
about love. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#36. I have imagined you
and maybe you have imagined me. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#37. You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry. #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward

#38. you make me feel like myself again. Myself before I had any solid reasons to be anything else. Last night you gave me space to dream bigger than the single bed. You laughed in your sleep and I cried in mine and #Quote by Yrsa Daley-Ward