Emma Andrews

“Beckett described sorrow becoming ‘a thing you can keep adding to all your life … like a stamp or an egg collection’.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

“It was not that easy to convey to him, a man much older than she was, that the world was her world too.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living

“When our father does the things he needs to do in the world, we understand it is his due. If our mother does the things she needs to do in the world, we feel she has abandoned us. It is a miracle she survives our mixed messages, written in society's most poisoned ink. It is enough to drive her mad.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography