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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. "
3 " Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling. "
4 " Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,while the first snows of winterfloated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silencedall trace of the world. "
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? "
6 " Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. "
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 himJoyfully "
8 " He had a respect for facts maybe this was one. "
9 " A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive. "
10 " Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. "
11 " There is no person without a world. "
12 " How does distance look?" is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. "
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. "
14 " Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh. "
15 " A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen. "
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. "
17 " ...there it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness. "
18 " Outside, the natural world was enjoying a moment of total strength. "
19 " Geryon was a monster everything about him was red "
20 " Lava bread makes you passionate. "