The Glass Essay Quotes

“Girls are cruelest to themselves.”
― Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

“From girl to woman to who I am now,
from love to anger to this cold marrow,
from fire to shelter to fire.”
― Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

“Girls are cruellest to themselves.”
― Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.

Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

“Charlotte’s preface to Wuthering Heights is a publicist’s masterpiece.
Like someone carefully not looking at a scorpion
crouched on the arm of the sofa”
― Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

“Nude #5. Deck of cards.
Each card is made of flesh.

The living cards are days of a woman’s life.
I see a great silver needle go flashing right through the deck once from end to
end.”
― Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days. It is as if I could dip my hands down into time and scoop up blue and green lozenges of April heat a year ago in another country.”
― Anne Carson, The Glass Essay