"Every so often, for offenses actual or hypothetical, my mother & father stop speaking to me. There's a funny phase for this phenomena in England: it's called being sent to Coventry." —Rachel Cusk
"The concentrated, flinty nature of Cusk's mind... ensures that authorial intelligence is burned into the syntax of every line... It is like reading the best kind of philosophy — steely, searching, brisk." —Lorie Moore