Skip to content

Bathroom Quote by Louise Glück

“Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly rigid. Does grief change you like that? Through the birches, I could see the pond. The sun was cutting small white holes in the water. I got up finally; I walked down to the pond. I stood there, brushing the grass from my skirt, watching myself, like a girl after her first lover turning slowly at the bathroom mirror, naked, looking for a sign. But nakedness in women is always a pose. I was not transfigured. I would never be free.”

Louise Glück

2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings)

More by Louise Glück

Explore all 74 Louise Glück quotes

More Bathroom quotes

Browse all 598 Bathroom quotes