Darcey Steinke
When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.Collection: Love Yourself
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.Collection: Doors
When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.Collection: Writing
You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.Collection: Way
I always think to myself, being human, having crushes now, what is it about that person that I really want? What do they represent? More freedom? Someone to care for me more? It's never really about the person.Collection: Crush
I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.Collection: Hate
As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.Collection: Mother
I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.Collection: Depressing
Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?Collection: Paris
Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Children
I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.Collection: Thinking
A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.Collection: Together