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61 " We're kissing in the rain.' Her voice was hard and soft at the same time. Like the velvet armchairs. Like the black rain inked on his hand. "
― Deborah Levy , Swimming Home
62 " I had energy because I had no choice but to have energy. I had to write to support my children and I had to do all the heavy lifting. Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs. "
― Deborah Levy , The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
63 " Life ia only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll al get home safely. "
64 " I am not okay. Not at all and haven´t been for some time. I did not tell her how discouraged I felt and that I was ashamed I was not more resilient an all the rest of it which included wanting a bigger life but that so far I had not been bold enough to make a bid for things I wanted to happen.... "
― Deborah Levy , Hot Milk
65 " After Duras wrote Lol Stein, she made a curious remark - she said that she gave herself permission to speak 'in a sense totally alien to women'. I know what she means. It is so hard to claim our desires and so much more relaxing to mock them. "
66 " It was true that I had no idea how to endure being alive and everything that comes with it. "
― Deborah Levy , The Man Who Saw Everything
67 " In fact I would be content to live in a humble wooden cabin on the edge of an ocean or a lake, but somehow I looked down on myself for not having a bigger dream. "
― Deborah Levy , Real Estate
68 " It seemed that acquiring a house was not the same thing as acquiring a home. And connected to home was a question I swatted away every time it landed too near me. Who else was living with me in the grand old house with the pomegranate tree? Was I alone with the melancholy fountain for company? No. There was definitely someone else there with me, perhaps even cooling their feet in that fountain. Who was this person? A phantom. "
69 " I can't stand THE DEPRESSED. It's like a job, it's the only thing they work hard at. "
70 " play with whatever the day brought in. "
71 " They would be enchanted beginners all over again, ... . That was the best thing to be in life. "
72 " She knew she never wanted children or to serve his breakfast or run his errands or pretend she was not intellectually engaged with the world to make herself more loveable to him. "
73 " Couples were always keen to return to the task of trying to destroy their lifelong partners while pretending to have their best interests at heart. "
74 " History is the dark magician inside us, tearing at our liver. (Deborah Levy, Hot Milk, p. 185) "
75 " Her taste for symmetry and structure, it helped her thoughts drift. Symmetry did not chain her, it set her free. (p. 85) "
76 " We did not yet entirely understand that Mother, as imagined and politicized by the Societal System, was a delusion. The world loved the delusion more than it loved the mother. "
― Deborah Levy , Things I Don't Want to Know
77 " To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life. But I had nowhere to write. "
78 " Has anyone ever actually told you how up yourself you are? "
79 " To use the language of a war correspondent, which was, she knew, what Isabel Jacobs happened to be, she would have to say thay Kitty Finch was smiling at her with hostile intent. "
80 " The unloved watch the loved perform the small rituals of their loving. "
― Deborah Levy , The Unloved