Rachel Cusk Quotes
Rachel Cusk Quotes
That’s writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn’t turn up.
4866 Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.
3128 I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?
1972 The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison.
4019 I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.
3311 People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.
3630 So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too.
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