Darcey Steinke Quotes

You'll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions.

The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.

Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.

birdish cottages on stilts

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

the outer banks swing out from the coast of North Carolina like the bony curve of a woman's hip

What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers?

I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.