“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.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“...she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“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… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“I can't stand THE DEPRESSED. It's like a job, it's the only thing they work hard at.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“The young woman was a window waiting to be climbed through. A window that she guessed was a little broken anyway.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“I can't stand THE DEPRESSED. It's like a job, it's the only thing they work hard at. Oh good my depression is very well… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“Next year he would suggest they hire a chalet on the edge of an icy fjord in Norway, as far away from the Jacobs… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“What is a sigh? That would be another good subject for a field study. Is it just a long, deep, audible exhalation of breath?… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“... to be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile...” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
