“I think I can remember
being dead. Many times, in winter,
I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him,
how can I endure the earth?”
― Louise Glück, quote from Averno
“Doesn’t everyone want to feel in the night
the beloved body, compass, polestar,
to hear the quiet breathing that says
I am alive, that means also
you are alive, because you hear me,
you are here with me”
― Louise Glück, quote from Averno
“I am tired of having hands
she said
I want wings —
But what will you do without your hands
to be human?
I am tired of human
she said
I want to live on the sun —”
― Louise Glück, quote from Averno
“It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world.
It is also true that I am not competent to restore it.
Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use.”
― Louise Glück, quote from Averno
“The assignment was to fall in love.
The details were up to you.
The second part was
to include in the poem certain words,
words drawn from a specific text
on another subject altogether.”
― Louise Glück, quote from Averno
“The sound of the sea— just memory now.”
― Louise Glück, quote from Averno
“You get on a train, you disappear.
You write your name on the window, you disappear.
There are places like this everywhere,
places you enter as a young girl
from which you never return.”
― Louise Glück, quote from Averno
“I fell asleep in a river, I woke in a river,
of my mysterious
failure to die I can tell you
nothing, neither
who saved me nor for what cause—”
― Louise Glück, quote from Averno
Louise Glück
Born place: in New York City, The United States
Born date April 22, 1943
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“Dit comme ça, c'était un peu cucul évidemment, mais bon, c'était la vérité et il y avait bien longtemps que le ridicule ne les tuait plus: pour la première fois et tous autant qu'ils étaient, ils eurent l'impression d'avoir une vraie famille. Mieux qu'une vraie d'ailleurs, une voulue, une pour laquelle ils s'étaient battus et qui ne leur demandait rien d'autre en échange que d'être heureux ensemble. Même pas heureux d'ailleurs, ils n'étaient plus si exigeants. D'être ensemble, c'est tout. Et déjà c'était inesperé.”
― Anna Gavalda, quote from Hunting and Gathering
“I'm no longer a daughter.
No longer a granddaughter.
No longer a girl with dreams. With hope.
I'm a weapon, now.”
― C.J. Redwine, quote from Defiance
“My most scientific analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it's magic.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from The Enchantress Returns
“The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.”
― Eleanor Catton, quote from The Luminaries
“She gets that words are sometimes bullshit and people don’t mean what they say and through it all it’s only actions that matter.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Remy
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