Quotes from The Year of Yes

Maria Dahvana Headley ·  288 pages

Rating: (1.4K votes)


“I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from The Year of Yes


“I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from The Year of Yes


“I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been good in both bed and brain. No. A slew of the so-so.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from The Year of Yes


“...instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you rightfully deserve, you're getting stupefying lines like: "I'm listening to NPR. Do you want to come over and make out?”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from The Year of Yes


“The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from The Year of Yes



“The Playwright was excited in the way a child is excited on Christmas morning. I liked this. Most people didn't get excited about anything other than their own discontent.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from The Year of Yes


About the author

Maria Dahvana Headley
Born place: in The United States
See more on GoodReads

Popular quotes

“I couldn’t imagine loving someone with that kind of intensity, and knowing that the one you’re with is the only one you’ll ever want.”

I realized that I was rambling so I stopped talking as Trace just looked at me. His expression was completely unreadable. He wrapped his hands around my face as he looked deeply into my eyes before he whispered, “I can...”
― L.A. Fiore, quote from Beautifully Damaged


“I married you, Evelyn, because you made sense to me. We make sense. We're a whole lot better together than apart.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lick


“If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too.”
― Orhan Pamuk, quote from Istanbul: Memories and the City


“It was an age of tragic mistakes.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Hunters of the Dusk


“Till the rest of his days were done, Abner Marsh remembered that moment, that first look into the eyes of Joshua York.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Fevre Dream


Interesting books

Everwild
(10.6K)
Everwild
by Neal Shusterman
Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)
(17.9K)
Ten Things We Did (a...
by Sarah Mlynowski
Blindsight
(19.2K)
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
(38.3K)
The River of Doubt:...
by Candice Millard
Death of Kings
(15.7K)
Death of Kings
by Bernard Cornwell
Reconstructing Amelia
(105.8K)
Reconstructing Ameli...
by Kimberly McCreight

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.