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Autobiography of Red QUOTES

Autobiography of Red QUOTES

1 " Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

2 " He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

3 " Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

4 " Small, red, and upright he waited,
gripping his new bookbag tight
in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,
while the first snows of winter
floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced
all trace of the world. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

5 " She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone’s arm after you grab it? "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

6 " Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

7 " Are there many little boys who think they are a
Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the
Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him
Joyfully "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

8 " He had a respect for facts maybe this was one. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

9 " A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

10 " Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

11 " There is no person without a world. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

12 " How does distance look?" is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

13 " You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

14 " Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

15 " A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

16 " …..in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul. Like the terrestial crust of the earth which is proportionately 10 times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is a miracle of mutual pressures. Millions of kilograms of force pounding up from earth’s core on the inside to meet the cold air of the world and stop as we do, just in time. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

17 " ...there it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

18 " Outside, the natural world was enjoying a moment of total strength. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

19 " Geryon was a monster everything about him was red "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red

20 " Lava bread makes you passionate. "

― Anne Carson , Autobiography of Red