“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.” Letting GoHeartacheComing Of AgeFemale CharactersCredo Book:Sister Golden Hair Source: Sister Golden Hair
“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.” ThinkingWantHumansPersonsCareCrushBeing HumanHaving A Crush Author:Darcey Steinke
“When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.” WritingLong Author: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.” IfsThinkingMindChildrenKidsMiddleWhat IfRobotsSomewhere ElseThinking What If Author:Darcey Steinke
“I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.” ThinkingKnowsImportantIdeasTheologicalYou Think You KnowUnknowing Author:Darcey Steinke
“A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.” TogetherWatchesNovelTvsSeriesBiographiesTv Series Author: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.” ProblemDoorsModernFrontsStrongerWideFront DoorsModern Woman Author: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.” IfsMenWantSeemsTerribleLove YourselfRibsHandcuffs Author:Darcey Steinke
“Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.” NeedsFeelsSeemsSevereDoseJunkie Author:Darcey Steinke
“You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.” WayMillions Author:Darcey Steinke
“Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?” SpiritParisFlew Author:Darcey Steinke
“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.” HandsCertainReliefDepressingBegging Author:Darcey Steinke
“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.” ChildrenMadeTogetherMotherMelancholyDoomedPactCocoons Author:Darcey Steinke
“I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.” PeopleWantHate Author:Darcey Steinke
