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Top 20 Susie Steiner Quotes (2024 Update)

Susie Steiner Quote: “The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started – “Little Gidding,” T. S. ELIOT.”

1. “The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started – “Little Gidding,” T. S. ELIOT.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “You take up yoga, walk and swim. And nothing works. The outlook’s grim.”

2. “You take up yoga, walk and swim. And nothing works. The outlook’s grim.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “The baby’s tiny fat hand lies on Manon’s other breast, possessively. Recently, he’s begun pulling off – rather painfully taking the nipple with him in his powerful suction-gums – in order to look up at her and smile. Huge gummy mouth, froglike, eyes filled with delight. It’s as if he is saying thank you for the milk, or something along the lines of “Isn’t this nice, we two?”

3. “The baby’s tiny fat hand lies on Manon’s other breast, possessively. Recently, he’s begun pulling off – rather painfully taking the nipple with him in his powerful suction-gums – in order to look up at her and smile. Huge gummy mouth, froglike, eyes filled with delight. It’s as if he is saying thank you for the milk, or something along the lines of “Isn’t this nice, we two?”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Plant prickly bushes under windows. Halt! This is a shrubbery!”

4. “Plant prickly bushes under windows. Halt! This is a shrubbery!”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “No, this is easy-does-it shabby. I-know-who-I-am shabby. Persian-rug shabby.”

5. “No, this is easy-does-it shabby. I-know-who-I-am shabby. Persian-rug shabby.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Nature doesn’t know what to do with a childless woman of thirty-nine, except throw her that fertility curveball – aches and pains combined with extra time, like some terrifying end to a high-stakes football match.”

6. “Nature doesn’t know what to do with a childless woman of thirty-nine, except throw her that fertility curveball – aches and pains combined with extra time, like some terrifying end to a high-stakes football match.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “She remembers those moments of coming up against death and having to shock yourself with the permanence of it. The hollow sensation of actively loving a person who cannot love you back because they are dead. And wondering who you are, if the you who was loved by them isn’t being loved by them anymore.”

7. “She remembers those moments of coming up against death and having to shock yourself with the permanence of it. The hollow sensation of actively loving a person who cannot love you back because they are dead. And wondering who you are, if the you who was loved by them isn’t being loved by them anymore.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Manon knows what lies beneath, how people can seem normal and yet grief swirls about like an unseen tide working against the currents of life, the mourner wrong-footed by its undertow. The bereaved should wear signs, she thinks, saying GRIEF IN PROGRESS – for at least a couple of years.”

8. “Manon knows what lies beneath, how people can seem normal and yet grief swirls about like an unseen tide working against the currents of life, the mourner wrong-footed by its undertow. The bereaved should wear signs, she thinks, saying GRIEF IN PROGRESS – for at least a couple of years.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “All these people locked in their own thoughts, enmeshed in complicated lives, each of us believing we’re at the center.”

9. “All these people locked in their own thoughts, enmeshed in complicated lives, each of us believing we’re at the center.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Mourning someone is hard work. It’s so hard it brings with it a tiredness you can’t even believe. You keep thinking you can sleep it off but you just get more tired as it goes on.”

10. “Mourning someone is hard work. It’s so hard it brings with it a tiredness you can’t even believe. You keep thinking you can sleep it off but you just get more tired as it goes on.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Yes, she’s grumpy, but a skinny latte soon takes the edge off her, most days, anyhow – like throwing a steak into the lion enclosure.”

11. “Yes, she’s grumpy, but a skinny latte soon takes the edge off her, most days, anyhow – like throwing a steak into the lion enclosure.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “I am of an age for grief.”

12. “I am of an age for grief.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “One minute you are loved, and then you are not.”

13. “One minute you are loved, and then you are not.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Each member of the family in their personal cube of unhappiness.”

14. “Each member of the family in their personal cube of unhappiness.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Angel and I were watching all this, the smears of ketchup hardening on our discarded plates, our feet up as if our legs were paralyzed, which they were I suppose. There is little in modern life more paralyzing than the recliner chair.”

15. “Angel and I were watching all this, the smears of ketchup hardening on our discarded plates, our feet up as if our legs were paralyzed, which they were I suppose. There is little in modern life more paralyzing than the recliner chair.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “The problem of food, for one: it symbolizes everything. She wants delicious morsels, yet cooking for herself is so defeating: a surplus of ingredients, the washing-up unshared, and the sense that it doesn’t matter – the production of it or whether it’s nice.”

16. “The problem of food, for one: it symbolizes everything. She wants delicious morsels, yet cooking for herself is so defeating: a surplus of ingredients, the washing-up unshared, and the sense that it doesn’t matter – the production of it or whether it’s nice.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Tea had featured heavily in the past fortnight. Miriam sometimes felt her belly sloshing with it, like a waterbed, yet still she took tea when it was proffered, for the symbolism, she supposed – solicitude, comfort, warmth. It is the English way, after all.”

17. “Tea had featured heavily in the past fortnight. Miriam sometimes felt her belly sloshing with it, like a waterbed, yet still she took tea when it was proffered, for the symbolism, she supposed – solicitude, comfort, warmth. It is the English way, after all.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “She’s always rehearsing, having imaginary conversations in her head that preempt real encounters.”

18. “She’s always rehearsing, having imaginary conversations in her head that preempt real encounters.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Her eyes red-rimmed, now brimming, her forehead furrowed with disbelief and anger. There is nothing worse than seeing your mother cry and being the cause.”

19. “Her eyes red-rimmed, now brimming, her forehead furrowed with disbelief and anger. There is nothing worse than seeing your mother cry and being the cause.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “These days, of course, the old dowager names are all the rage; even stalwarts of the Tory party call their children Florence and Alfred with a knowing wink.”

20. “These days, of course, the old dowager names are all the rage; even stalwarts of the Tory party call their children Florence and Alfred with a knowing wink.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Thinking how she loved the very flesh of her. You got used to that with children, love crashing over you like waves.”

21. “Thinking how she loved the very flesh of her. You got used to that with children, love crashing over you like waves.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “She’s alone so much these days, in part because when the sand drifts receded, along with the departure of the children, they left an excess of time, while Ian’s existence maintained its steady course, which was essentially Rushing About Being Important.”

22. “She’s alone so much these days, in part because when the sand drifts receded, along with the departure of the children, they left an excess of time, while Ian’s existence maintained its steady course, which was essentially Rushing About Being Important.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “She loves a silence with Davy Walker. Some people give good silence, and he is one of them.”

23. “She loves a silence with Davy Walker. Some people give good silence, and he is one of them.”

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Susie Steiner Quote: “Davy, of course, smiling in at her, coffee in hand, the light glowing behind those marvellous ears, like red quotation marks.”

24. “Davy, of course, smiling in at her, coffee in hand, the light glowing behind those marvellous ears, like red quotation marks.”

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