Steinke Quotes

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

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

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

birdish cottages on stilts ~ Darcey Steinke

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. ~ Darcey Steinke

All relationship systems become anxious. People put together and inevitably anxiety will arise. Anxiety can be infectious. We can give it to others or catch it from them. What precisely triggers anxiety is unique to each system. Common Activators are significant changes and losses. They upset the stable patterns and balance of the system. ~ Peter L. Steinke

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

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

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

N. T. Wright explains, "What [Jesus] was promising for that future, and doing in that present, was not saving souls for a disembodied eternity, but rescuing people from the corruption and decay of the way the world presently is so they could enjoy, already in the present, that renewal of creation which is God's ultimate purpose - and so they could thus become colleagues and partners in that larger project."1 A promise of a new creation and an invitation to a new vocation stretches beyond "me and Jesus" to God's worldwide purposes. The mission of the church must be informed and shaped by how the New Testament presents the future hope. ~ Peter L. Steinke

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? ~ Darcey Steinke

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. ~ Darcey Steinke

No decent art ever came out of self-pity. ~ Rene Steinke

For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine - with tremendous humor and insight - the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances. ~ Emma McLaughlin

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. ~ Darcey Steinke

Anxious systems also fail to get a clear view of things. Embedded in their dread, they lose a sense of proportion. They have little awareness of what is happening and how it is being mutually maintained. Emotionally cramps the broader view. ~ Peter L. Steinke

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

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. ~ Darcey Steinke