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

“Outside the car, the cows and pastures are drifting away;
they look calm, but calm is not the truth.
Despair is the truth. This is what
mother and father know. All hope is lost.
We must return to where it was lost
if we want to find it again.”
― Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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

“a woman will return, looking for the girl she was”
― Louise Glück, Landscape