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Deborah Levy quotes: She was not a poet. She was a poem.

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

Deborah Levy quotes: It is a disappointment to me to spawn a child who feels so deeply. I would like to refute the idea that to feel somehow makes you a better person.

It is a disappointment to me to spawn a child who feels so deeply. I would like to refute the idea that to feel somehow makes you a better person.

Deborah Levy quotes: It would take a while for me not to think of the Greek language as the father who walked out on me

It would take a while for me not to think of the Greek language as the father who walked out on me

Deborah Levy quotes: Her taste for symmetry and structure, it helped her thoughts drift. Symmetry did not chain her, it set her free. (p. 85)

Her taste for symmetry and structure, it helped her thoughts drift. Symmetry did not chain her, it set her free. (p. 85)

Deborah Levy quotes: How do we set about not imagining something?

How do we set about not imagining something?

Deborah Levy quotes: We are East & West looting each other.

We are East & West looting each other.

Deborah Levy quotes: It smelt of coconut ice cream and sweat and the Mediterranean sea. I

It smelt of coconut ice cream and sweat and the Mediterranean sea. I

Deborah Levy quotes: The unloved watch the loved perform the small rituals of their loving.

The unloved watch the loved perform the small rituals of their loving.

Deborah Levy quotes: It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.

It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.

Deborah Levy quotes: My love for my mother is like an axe. It cuts very deep.

My love for my mother is like an axe. It cuts very deep.

Deborah Levy quotes: History is the dark magician inside us, tearing at our liver. (Deborah Levy, Hot Milk, p. 185)

History is the dark magician inside us, tearing at our liver. (Deborah Levy, Hot Milk, p. 185)

Deborah Levy quotes: Life ia only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll al get home safely.

Life ia only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll al get home safely.

Deborah Levy quotes: Anything covered is always interesting. There is never nothing beneath something that is covered.

Anything covered is always interesting. There is never nothing beneath something that is covered.

Deborah Levy quotes: She is dark. He is fair. She comes from there. He comes from here. They like each other. It is an easy and lovely lust ...

She is dark. He is fair. She comes from there. He comes from here. They like each other. It is an easy and lovely lust ...

Deborah Levy quotes: This was the rearranged space of yesterday.

This was the rearranged space of yesterday.

Deborah Levy quotes: I want to be master of my own fuck-ups.

I want to be master of my own fuck-ups.

Deborah Levy quotes: 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.

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 quotes: We have to mourn our dead, but we cannot let them take over our life.

We have to mourn our dead, but we cannot let them take over our life.

Deborah Levy quotes: Next year he would suggest they hire a chalet on the edge of an icy fjord in Norway, as far away from the Jacobs family as possible.

Next year he would suggest they hire a chalet on the edge of an icy fjord in Norway, as far away from the Jacobs family as possible.

Deborah Levy quotes: Has anyone ever actually told you how up yourself you are?

Has anyone ever actually told you how up yourself you are?

Deborah Levy quotes: We are East & West looting each other.

We are East & West looting each other.

Deborah Levy quotes: They would be enchanted beginners all over again, ... That was the best thing to be in life.

They would be enchanted beginners all over again, ... That was the best thing to be in life.

Deborah Levy quotes: It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to live.

It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to live.

Deborah Levy quotes: When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

Deborah Levy quotes: The young woman was a window waiting to be climbed through. A window that she guessed was a little broken anyway.

The young woman was a window waiting to be climbed through. A window that she guessed was a little broken anyway.

Deborah Levy quotes: To be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile ...

To be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile ...

Deborah Levy quotes: Yes, there had been many times I called my daughters back to zip up their coats. All the same, I knew they would rather be cold and free.

Yes, there had been many times I called my daughters back to zip up their coats. All the same, I knew they would rather be cold and free.

Deborah Levy quotes: As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

Deborah Levy quotes: It is not enough to feel love. More important is how we express love.

It is not enough to feel love. More important is how we express love.

Deborah Levy quotes: We have travelled a long distance from the cow with a bucket of raw milk under its udder. We are a long way from home.' This

We have travelled a long distance from the cow with a bucket of raw milk under its udder. We are a long way from home.' This

Deborah Levy quotes: play with whatever the day brought in.

play with whatever the day brought in.

Deborah Levy quotes: Time has shattered, it's cracked like my lips.

Time has shattered, it's cracked like my lips.

Deborah Levy quotes: He bought her a bottle of lime pickle which seems to me a very intimate thing to do; it suggests he knows what she likes to taste.

He bought her a bottle of lime pickle which seems to me a very intimate thing to do; it suggests he knows what she likes to taste.

Deborah Levy quotes: She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him.

She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable.