19 Quotes by Darcey Steinke

The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.

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.

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions.

What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers?

I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you’d never been?

For awhile, staring at my paper bag of clothes, my freaked-out eyes in the mirror behind the bar, I convinced myself I would go back to Bell. He was the only man that ever made me feel in life instead of just a spectator, and if he did that by fear and pain, it was still better then when I looked numbly at some man on the couch thinking, I will leave you soon.

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.