Swimming Home
Deborah Levy
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She was not a poet. She was a poem.”
“Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.”
“As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.”
“... to be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile...”
“It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to live.”
“I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.”
“The young woman was a window waiting to be climbed through. A window that she guessed was a little broken anyway.”
“We're kissing in the rain.' Her voice was hard and soft at the same time. Like the velvet armchairs. Like the black rain inked on his hand.”
“This was the rearranged space of yesterday.”
“Life ia only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll al get home safely.”
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Book Keywords:
personality, perceptions
