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Top 20 Darcey Steinke Quotes (2025 Update)

Darcey Steinke Quote: “You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.”

1. “You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions.”

4. “Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.”

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

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.”

8. “A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.”

9. “The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers?”

11. “What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers?”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.”

13. “I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.”

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

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.”

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

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you’d never been?”

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

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “For awhile, staring at my paper bag of clothes, my freaked-out eyes in the mirror behind the bar, I convinced myself I would go back to Bell. He was the only man that ever made me feel in life instead of just a spectator, and if he did that by fear and pain, it was still better then when I looked numbly at some man on the couch thinking, I will leave you soon.”

17. “For awhile, staring at my paper bag of clothes, my freaked-out eyes in the mirror behind the bar, I convinced myself I would go back to Bell. He was the only man that ever made me feel in life instead of just a spectator, and if he did that by fear and pain, it was still better then when I looked numbly at some man on the couch thinking, I will leave you soon.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.”

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

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.”

19. “Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.”

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Darcey Steinke Quote: “Nature is most beautiful in its movement: wind, water, the sinking sun.”

20. “Nature is most beautiful in its movement: wind, water, the sinking sun.”

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