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

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

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

- Darcey Steinke

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

- Darcey Steinke

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 depre…

- Darcey Steinke

Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

- Darcey Steinke

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

- Darcey Steinke

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

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

- Darcey Steinke