“I become aware of myself, too close, like a stranger sitting down right next to me in a train carriage full of empty seats.”
– Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, 2012

“He says, sometimes you say things before you’ve understood them yourself. For you the saying is a kind of working out, he says, like doing a sum on a bit of paper.”
– Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, 2012