Elizabeth

“The boldness of this leap teaches us something important about the short story: it is not a documentary or a rigorous accounting of the passage of time or a fair-minded attempt to show life as it is really lived; it's a radically shaped, even somewhat cartoonish (when held up against the tedious real world) little time machine that thrills us with the extremity of its decisiveness.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“How does distance look?” is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. It depends on light.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“The soul has a story that has a shape that almost no one
sees. No, no one ever does.”
― Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems