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“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud”
― Anne Carson

“She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“If you pick a flower, if you snatch a handbag, if you possess a woman, if you plunder a storehouse, ravage a countryside or occupy a city, you are a taker. You are taking. In ancient Greek you use the verb άρπάζειν, which comes over into Latin as rapio, rapere, raptus sum and gives us English rapture and rape — words stained with the very early blood of girls, with the very late blood of cities, with the hysteria of the end of the world. Sometimes I think language should cover its own eyes when it speaks.”
― Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy