Katelin Hull

“We must let him sleep, said the grandmother. We must walk quietly by. He is at that point in life at which neither returning to the beginning nor advancing to the end seems bearable; therefore, he has decided to stop, here, in the midst of things, though this makes him an obstacle to others, such as ourselves. But we must not give up hope; in my own life, she continued, there was such a time, though that was long ago.”
― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

“Silence had entered me.
It was like the night, and my memories - they were like stars
in that they were fixed, though of course
if one would see they are unending fires, like the fires of hell.”
― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

“I write about you all the time, I said aloud. Every time I say "I", it refers to you.”
― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

“Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic. Many times she allowed the dark to fall upon them, refraining from lighting the lamp. The dark discreet room, their isolation, the music that still vibrated in their ears united them.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners