ʜᴇʏ sʜɪᴛʜᴇᴀᴅ .

i.   quotes taken from various prose by anne carson. adjust as necessary.

❝  as long as you want, and all that you want.  ❞

❝  i am someone who did not die when i should have died.  ❞

❝  i remember exactly how i thought life would be.  ❞

❝  why are you so in love with things unbearable?  ❞

❝  i conversed with you in a dream.  ❞

❝  lie down and tell me about it.  ❞

❝  humans in love are terrible.  ❞

❝  desire is no light thing.  ❞

❝  your bitter heart heals my heart.  ❞

❝  gods are stubborn. so am i.  ❞

❝  memory is exhausting.  ❞

❝  anger is a bitter lock. but you can turn it.  ❞

❝  beauty of the heart and the mind are things that are cultivated.  ❞

❝  you cannot make me stop thinking.  ❞

❝  some conversations are not about what they’re about.  ❞

❝  but you know none of us is pure.  ❞

❝  there is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable.  ❞

❝  what chance do we have for a bit of attention?  ❞

❝  but dreams have ensavaged me.  ❞

❝  you are in pain, so what?  ❞

❝  love does not make me gentle or kind.  ❞

❝  my mind is burning.  ❞

❝  girls are cruelest to themselves.  ❞

❝  i wanted to know you.  ❞

❝  i do not want to be a person. i want to be unbearable.  ❞

❝  i will do anything to avoid boredom.  ❞

❝  i am interested in anger.  ❞

❝  not ashamed to say i loved him for his beauty. as i would again.  ❞