Aria Aber > Quotes

“And though I knew the complexity of our fate couldn’t be reduced to a single sheet of paper, she nonetheless had a point: Evil expressed itself through administrative language.”
― Aria Aber, Good Girl

“He said he was a nihilist but found God everywhere.”
― Aria Aber, Good Girl

“Writing is an inherently lonely activity. It requires you to be still and present and porous to whatever it is you want to say." -
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― Aria Aber

“everything glows with new importance”
― Aria Aber, Good Girl

“I stole a prayer book from the hotel room.
Inside: the name of a woman I was meant to become.
I underlined every mention of salvation.

Then, I let the bathtub fill with warm water.
I slipped in, let my arms float above me like relics”
― Aria Aber, Hard Damage

“I feed her a spoonful of glass. By morning, she will be a window.”
― Aria Aber, Hard Damage

“The eros that drew strings between us, sometimes so taut they produced a sweet and secret sound. But the friction was frail - it was never meant to make real music, just to suggest its existence, like a violin encased in glass at a museum, so old and brittle it would fall apart if you tried to play it”
― Aria Aber, Good Girl

“guaranteed to roll for”
― Aria Aber, Good Girl

“Ich. Ich: far from Auge, the eye. Sounds like licht, which is light, or dicht, which is dense - I, the dense light of my eyeball that strives to look forward only.”
― Aria Aber, Hard Damage

“And I cannot see / their faces, who is foreign, who native.”
― Aria Aber, Hard Damage

“Art can unbolt your soul and reshape the fundamentals of your life.”
― Aria Aber, Good Girl

“I felt elated by the challenge, this group of friends who took David Foster Wallace too seriously and deodorant not seriously enough.”
― Aria Aber, Good Girl

“Per Frau Storz, you could diagnose an evil heart because it made the carrier’s face resemble a “root vegetable.”
― Aria Aber, Good Girl