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“The red world And corresponding red breezes
Went on Geryon did not”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“What we’ll always have is something we lost”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“I promise you, I was here. I felt things that made death so large it was indistinguishable from air—and I went on destroying inside it like wind in a storm.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“All lovers believe they are inventing love.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“I hope it’s love. I’m trying really hard
to make it love.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red