Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

"He had a respect for facts maybe this was one."

"Are there many little boys who think they are a Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him Joyfully"

"But when justice is done the world drops away."

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

"She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone’s arm after you grab it?"

"Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,while the first snows of winterfloated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silencedall trace of the world."

"Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling."

"He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew."

"Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do."