Best 8 quotes of Yrsa Daley-ward on MyQuotes

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.

If you were married to yourself could you stay with yourself? My house would be frightening and wild.

Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence. A fight inside the bones. A war within the blood.

Self expression is a tricky thing. Just as you start to feel comfortable with yourself after years of not, you then have to justify yourself to other people.

The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.

You can't quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.

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.

You will come away bruised. You will come away bruised but this will give you poetry.