Aria Aber Quotes

Writing is an inherently lonely activity. It requires you to be still and present and porous to whatever it is you want to say." - @AriaAber , via @The_Rumpus

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.

He said he was a nihilist but found God everywhere.

I feed her a spoonful of glass. By morning, she will be a window.

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

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

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.

And I cannot see / their faces, who is foreign, who native.