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“They told us it was a dance, a party, a pageant, so we ran laughing together straight into the disaster.”

Book:Space, in Chains

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Space, in Chains

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Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke is an American writer known for her poetry and novels. Her works often explore themes of personal identity, memory, and emotion. Born in 1961, Kasischke began her writing career in the 1980s. more

“Love doesn't want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn't value obedience over all else. Love doesn't judge and find some lives--or loves--more valuable than others. Love doesn't use people and throw them away. Love stays, and makes you stronger, even when the person you love is gone.”

Love Life In Love

Book:Juliet Immortal

Source: Juliet Immortal

“Boundaries are the lines we draw around our time, energy and emotions to protect our wellbeing. They are not walls built to shut others out, but fences with gates that can open and close. ... Many people struggle with boundaries because they equate them with selfishness or conflict. ... Yet saying yes when you mean no breeds resentment, which is far more toxic than an honest refusal”

Energy Relationships Honesty Communication Mental Health Boundaries Self Respect Connection Self Care No

Author:Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World"

“Even my identity has been kept hidden from me. It is a child's ghost buried in mud. It is an old woman waving at me from a passing train.”

Poetry Identity Ghost Eerie Space In Chains Laura Kasischke In Passing

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“and a table in a kitchen at which the nightingales feasted on fairy tales, the angels stuffed themselves with fog”

Poetry Angels Imagery Fairy Tales Space In Chains Laura Kasischke

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“Like a twentieth-century dream of Europe—all horrors, and pastries—some part of me, for all time stands in a short skirt in a hospital cafeteria line, with a tray, while in another glittering tower named for the world's richest man my mother, who is dying, never dies.”

Death Poetry Time Europe Space In Chains Laura Kasischke

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“I was there, where the pale words, like light on a wave. Where the forgotten music was still played. The lovers, gone. Their beds unmade.”

Poetry Space In Chains Laura Kasischke

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

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