Charlie Coombe

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
― Deborah Levy, Real Estate: A Living Autobiography

“It was true that I had no idea how to endure being alive and everything that comes with it.”
― Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything

“That night, in the deep heat of Greece, devoured by mosquitoes and reminiscences, I was thinking about all the doors I had closed in my life and what it would have taken to keep them ajar.”
― Deborah Levy, Real Estate

“It seemed that acquiring a house was not the same thing as acquiring a home. And connected to home was a question I swatted away every time it landed too near me. Who else was living with me in the grand old house with the pomegranate tree? Was I alone with the melancholy fountain for company? No. There was definitely someone else there with me, perhaps even cooling their feet in that fountain. Who was this person? A phantom.”
― Deborah Levy, Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3