“I am the impossibility of desiring the person you pity. And the petal of the Easter lily—”
Source: Space, in Chains
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Famous Laura Kasischke Quotes
Source: Space, in Chains
“To live. I'm not endorsing it.”
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
“The heart hacked out of the center of an overgrown hedge with an ax To live beyond the brain”
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
“The self on tiptoes sneaking away from the self.”
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
“And this letter I didn't send how surprising to find it now. All this love I must have felt.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“And all the embezzled cents and dollars of the last time I saw you.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“I, who am doubt now, with a song.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“Its sweet bird's nest is full of pain in a distant place”
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
“My eyes closed, hands open, Take it, take it. Then, every day wasted chasing it.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“I’m demon-eyed, but I’m also filled with acceptance.”
Source: Lightning Falls in Love
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
“And the box inside him in which his mother resides is velvet and black and without size.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“The physical universe and its buzzing machinery, its fantastical scenery.”
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
“I'm not as dumb as they think I am but neither am I wise.”
Source: Dance and Disappear
“It’s twilight in the vineyard, and the red night rises from a troubled woman’s glass of wine.”
Source: Lightning Falls in Love
“The urgent warnings: The dreamy terror of certain summer mornings.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“A knife plunged into the center of summer. Air and terror, which become teeth together.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“Why not the Victorians and their sentimental grief-wreaths woven from a loved one's hair?”
Source: Space, in Chains
“That to want to succeed is to fail”
Source: Space, in Chains
“There, tonight. The eternity of that. Swan logic. Swan history.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“as if we were actual human beings or completely normal people”
Source: Space, in Chains
“When I built my luminous prison around you, you simply lay down at the center of it and died.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“The aunts gathered around the fiery cake chanting, Make a wish! Make a wish!”
Source: Space, in Chains
“There are daisies In the ruined garden, still blooming strangely”
Source: Space, in Chains
“The day en route to darkness. The guillotine on the way to the neck.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“So we found ourselves in an ancient place, the very air around us bound by chains.”
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
“She is ancientness. She has lived forever. It has driven her insane.”
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
“Fragrant, dreaming, unreal, and having to do, terribly, with love.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“We would never be together in this life again.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“A man in the massive shadows of the columns of the Museum of Griefs-to-Come.”
Source: Space, in Chains
“A man holding a woman made of bad moods in his arms.”
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
“and the stones, bewitched, can see: The lost hours and into the past.”
Source: Space, in Chains
Source: Space, in Chains
“It was summer. My afternoons were made of time and vinyl.”
Source: Dance and Disappear
“The weatherman is always as honest as he is vague.”
Source: Gardening in the Dark