Lidia Yuknavitch Quotes about Water

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Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have

Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Order, Water, Wish

Lidia Yuknavitch (2011). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.15, Hawthorne Books

The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Rocks, Hands, Water

Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.18, Hawthorne Books

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Book, Water

Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.99, Hawthorne Books

Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus as open to "critique" as any other art form. Memoir has a form, formal strategies, issues of composition and craft, style, structure, all the elements of fiction or nonfiction or painting or music or what have you.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Art, Issues, Water

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Lidia Yuknavitch Quotes about Water

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