Autobiography of Red

by Anne Carson

Can human nature not survive Without a listener?

when justice is done the world drops away.

He knew the difference between facts and brother hatred.

Facts are bigger in the dark.

he thought about the difference between outside and inside. Inside is mine, he thought.

it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness.

I'm sorry but in context this is one of the most beautiful things ever written

Love does not make me gentle or kind, thought Geryon

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

There is no person without a world.

How old is your daughter? asked Geryon. Four—not quite human. Or perhaps a little beyond human.

Geryon did not want to become one of those people who think of nothing but their stores of pain.

We are amazing beings, Geryon is thinking. We are neighbors of fire.