4 Quotes & Sayings By Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq is a writer who often refers to herself as a “romancer of the real.” She was born in Belgium and lived in Paris before moving to Belgium, where she still lives. In addition to writing novels, she works on literary criticism and curates an art book about the relationship between literature and the arts. Her work has been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and English.

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Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of my life from now on: marginal and grim; my habitual daydreams and memories of our life as a couple reduced to nothing, to stuttering salvoes, by the gunpowder of the simple physical truth of my husband's absence. Marie Darrieussecq
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There are times when you wake at dawn and check your neck for the marks of the vampire, those two little red dots, your pupils still contracted with hate, muscles weary from the struggle. Marie Darrieussecq
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It wasn't night, it was simply darkness, with me in the middle hoping all the while that time was carrying on flowing, that something would crop up, me all alone in the middle, with my veins and my muscles dissolving rapidly into nothingness, me made of molecules of flesh and thought, dispersing in a cloud (a process of expansion as sudden as that of the room, a nebula of bedroom and me, between limits that grew dimmer by the moment). Marie Darrieussecq