Darcey Steinke famous quotes

03-17-2025

I always think to myself, being human, having crushes now, what is it about that person that I really want? What do they represent? More freedom? Someone to care for me more? It's never really about the person.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Crush #Thinking #Care
When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Writing #Long
I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Children #Kids #Thinking
I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Thinking #Ideas #Important
A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Together #Watches #Biographies
The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Doors #Stronger #Problem
When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Love Yourself #Men #Ribs
Everything was new, now Iâ€™m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Needs #Junkie #Feels
Youâ€™ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Way
Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?
-- Darcey Steinke

#Paris #Spirit #Flew
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.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Depressing #Hands #Relief
As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Mother #Children #Together
I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.
-- Darcey Steinke

#Hate #People #Want

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