Reader

“My parents couldn't see the life in my head;
when I wrote it down, they fixed the spelling.”
― Louise Glück, Averno

“I had two desires: desire
to be safe and desire to feel.”
― Louise Glück, Vita Nova

“We were supposed to be, all of us,
a circle, a line at every point
equally weighted or tensed, equally
close to the center. I saw it
differently. In my mind, my parents
were the circle; my sister and I
were trapped inside.”
― Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

“If you can't read, my sister said,
can you be happy?”
― Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective