Claudia Dey > Quotes

“The second you're born your parents start to describe you back to yourself and you become that person...I hate seeing myself from the outside. It has this hall-of-mirrors effect. I can never get to my real self because of these endless reflections.”
― Claudia Dey, Daughter

“No one warned me that with your child comes death. Death circles your growing body, and once your child has left it, death circles her too. This is why mothers don’t sleep. This is why mothers don’t look away from their children. This is why, even with a broken heart, a mother will bring herself back to life.”
― Claudia Dey, Daughter: A Novel

“Why can't a woman be more than one person in a lifetime?...Why can't she be two or three?”
― Claudia Dey, Heartbreaker

“But no one warns you about the love. No one even speaks about it. The love for your baby comes with something dark. It comes with death. When you look at your child for the first time, you feel the presence of death. How death is looking at your child too. That is why you don't sleep.”
― Claudia Dey, Heartbreaker

“You know, Natasha was saying, they say that grief is love with nowhere to go. I think that’s true at first, but then, Natasha was saying, I think that undersells love. Love finds its rightful place.”
― Claudia Dey, Daughter: A Novel

“Paul saw himself in the windshield, and he looked like a geese in midflight, he looked frantic and pointless, he had spent his life chasing love when he did not even know what love was”
― Claudia Dey, Daughter

“Love is dumb. Dumb as muscle.”
― Claudia Dey, Heartbreaker

“How I loved to eat your underwear. Better than steak.”
― Claudia Dey, Heartbreaker

“Ani’s theory was that most internet searches were a form of self-harm.”
― Claudia Dey, Daughter: A Novel

“I am a phenomenon. I am multiplying. I am one becoming two, and then I am two becoming one,”
― Claudia Dey, Heartbreaker

“I couldn't dramatize. Why do all that inventing when life gives so much and takes so much away?”
― Claudia Dey, Daughter

“Home is in the soul. You will spend your life trying to get back to it.”
― Claudia Dey, Heartbreaker

“He knows he can be bad, he says. That he has a hundred sons and daughters. But he does believe people are good. He is good. When it gets right down to it. Good and bad. "I am more than one thing," he says. "Most of us are more than one thing.”
― Claudia Dey, Heartbreaker