When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
Deborah LevyI realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'
Deborah LevyIt was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.
Deborah Levy