Quotes by : Rachel Cusk

I would like”, she resumed, “to see the world more innocently again, more impersonally, but I have....

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

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr,....

Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about....

I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably....

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

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

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....