I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“She herself, she said, had visited the very depths of disillusionment in the male character by being honest in precisely this way:… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“And saying you love him is the same as saying you don’t want to know what he really thinks of you. If… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.'… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“If a man had a nasty side to his character, she wanted to get to it immediately and confront it. She didn’t want it… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back -… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“At the time, he had got rid of her so efficiently and so suavely that she had felt almost reassured even as she was… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“From the distance of England the Italian cuisine seems to be all things to all people. It does not expect you to bend to… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
