ANNE CARSON SENTENCE PROMPTS
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. ❞
❝ 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. ❞
❝ this would be hard for you if you were weak, but you are not weak. ❞