Yesteryear Quotes: Best Quotes by Caro Claire Burke

Looking for the best Yesteryear quotes by Caro Claire Burke? Here are memorable quotes from the novel about marriage, women, motherhood, social media, relationships, feminism, and modern life.

Best Yesteryear Quotes

“And please give my husband a spine. I’m tired of him needing to borrow mine.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“The way some women so willingly compromised every ounce of themselves in the name of building a life for themselves that they didn’t enjoy.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“All men wanted to become legends. It was so embarrassing.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“The goal of an influencer is not to be lovable, and it is not to be unbearable. The goal is to be both at once. In other words: addicting.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“America hates women. What a comfort to remember. It is”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“You think kindness is some silly frivolous side virtue, when it is in fact the whole damn thing!”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“I am starting to think that church might just be another word for people.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“It’s easy to go everywhere when you’re the one who sets the traps.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“I feel like I’m living in the aftermath of a failed punch line.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

Yesteryear Quotes About Marriage

“And please give my husband a spine. I’m tired of him needing to borrow mine.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“There comes a point in every marriage when a woman realizes that the man she married is a freak.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“In order for me to be a homewrecker, you would have to have a home for me to wreck, and you don’t. You don’t even have a family. What you have is a business.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Another long drive back home, through the mountains and past the farms and down the long dirt road to the nightmare—I mean dream—of my own making, the world I molded with my own bare hands. Playdough husband, playdough children, playdough life.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

Yesteryear Quotes About Women

“America hates women. What a comfort to remember. It is”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“The way some women so willingly compromised every ounce of themselves in the name of building a life for themselves that they didn’t enjoy.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“A voice in my head, echoing softly: America hates angry women. The Lord hates angry women. You hate angry women. Do not be an angry woman.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“These women wanted—no, they needed—perfection from me. After all, the tighter the stitching, the more soothing it is to pick apart at the seams.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“this was the world I was born into: a world where good Christian women moonlighted as crisis managers for their good Christian men.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“The goal of an influencer is not to be lovable, and it is not to be unbearable. The goal is to be both at once. In other words: addicting.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“I had a million followers, I could access more people in a single moment than any European king of the last thousand years, and then someone could effortlessly wipe my entire kingdom away with a single sentence: I don’t have Instagram.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

Funny Yesteryear Quotes

“All men wanted to become legends. It was so embarrassing.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“I felt like I needed to throw a dish towel over his penis and wait an hour to let it rise.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Want to blow through five million dollars so quickly it makes your head spin? Buy a fucking farm.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Natalie’s like a border collie, my mother used to say to the other women at church. She needs a project, otherwise she starts chewing the cabinet corners.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

Deep Yesteryear Quotes

“But that’s something I’ve learned in the years since I left the ranch: you cannot change people who refuse to be changed. You can only love them.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“A lesson it had taken me much longer to learn: sometimes the love of strangers is much more terrifying than the hate.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“It’s all some vital game, isn’t it? No—more than a game. It’s the long, golden string of insincerity that threads together the entire human race…”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“How much beauty you’ve missed. Because it really is beautiful: this future you prayed we would never get the chance to see.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

Yesteryear Motherhood Quotes

“My eldest daughter was like me, not just in likeness but in disposition, too: she held her intelligence like a knife behind her back.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Sleep, breastfeed. Breastfeed, sleep. Sleep, sleep, sleep. Breastfeed. Cry. Breastfeed. Sleep. Kill yourself. No—sorry. Sleep.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

Yesteryear Quotes About Money & Modern Life

“Want to blow through five million dollars so quickly it makes your head spin? Buy a fucking farm.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“America didn’t care one iota about morality when it came to politicians. If anything, we expected them to be a little sleazy.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“if you wanted to be a wealthy Christian woman and maintain good standing, you needed to publicly disavow your luxuries in order to maintain possession of them.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

Yesteryear Quotes About Work & Feminism

“From here on out, Reena’s life was going to be hard.”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“The way some women so willingly compromised every ounce of themselves…”

— Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

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Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke contains memorable lines about marriage, motherhood, feminism, religion, social media, money, and the expectations placed on women.