Quotes by : Rachel Cusk

So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them....

At times, Melete continued, it had seemed to her that this fact was what had created this behavior. Her....

The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary....

I had started to desire power, because what I now realised was that other people had had it all along,....

Yet I believe, as I say, that it was precisely this underhand act that gave birth to her vitriol, for....

I can see us there still," he said, "for those were moments so intense that in a way we will be living....

This anti-description, for want of a better way of putting it, had made something clear to her by a reverse....

Among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests itself in things....

She was surprised to discover that Paola was thirty-four. 'What have you been doing all this time?' she....

The Cunning Little Vixen, in which a fox is caught by a hunter and kept in a farmyard with the other....