Life of M Quotes

“Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.”
― Rachel Cusk, Life of M

“It was as if, being removed from reality, she had made it her life’s goal to find it again.”
― Rachel Cusk, Life of M

“I was suspicious of the power of distraction that films possessed. Their total sensory invasion was overwhelming. It could sometimes take days to recover from seeing a film. It was as though, by watching the film, you acquired a set of memories that were not your own. For a while, everything looked different, as if the film were still happening outside in the world.”
― Rachel Cusk, Life of M

“The writer of the book about the stepfather described how other people continued to live in time while she herself was preserved in incidents that perennially recurred, that were eternally still happening to her no matter how old she got.”
― Rachel Cusk, Life of M

“The stepfather had recorded himself on the writer of the book.”
― Rachel Cusk, Life of M