#anne carson.

we begin in the dark and death is the birth of us.

leave my death alone.

a husband or a child can be replaced, but who can grow me a new brother?

nothing vast enters the lives of mortals without ruin.

i'll be so lonely.

you think you are iron but i can bend you.

i was born for love, not hatred.

we're all here. we're all fine.

an enemy is always an enemy, alive or dead.

you are a person in love with the impossible.

i share the blame.

you did nothing.

but of course there is hope.

do not say that. or i will have to hate you too.

i can give you reasons not to die.

some god is heading you on the high road to ruin.

it wouldn't help you. it didn't help me.

this terrible thing we're witnessing now is not unique. 

you know it happened before, or something much like it.

they'll welcome me.

shall [name] prescribe to me how i should rule?

why not find a desert and rule all alone?

watch out. i see the future plunging toward you.

that is so wrong. that is so wrong.

i am your defender.

i am yours.

everything i touch goes wrong.

your soul is blowing apart.

blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil.

i want to row the boat with you.

you're not ashamed?

no shame in honoring one's kin.

you're late to learn what's what, aren't you?

to die is my only prayer. 

i ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way. 

i am the shape you made me. filth teaches filth.

do i not live? badly, i know. but i live. 

in times like these, self-control has no meaning. 

yes, i know sorrow. i know it quite well. 

strange. i don't think of you as a mother at all. 

vengeance is coming. 

don't you see what you're doing? you make your own pain. 

how many times can a heart break?

why are you so in love with things unbearable? 

how i pity the dark life you live. 

i've learned to side with winners. 

there is no one on earth i have hated and loved like you. 

is this the brilliant [name]? 

oh, my love, take me there. let me dwell where you are. 

i know what i am. 

death itself is not the worst.