Quotes by : Anne Carson

Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky penny....

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't....

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just....

Some conversations are not about what they're about.

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional....

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does....

Are there many little boys who think they are a Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the....

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.....