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.

Art can unbolt your soul and reshape the fundamentals of your life.

guaranteed to roll for

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

I felt elated by the challenge, this group of friends who took David Foster Wallace too seriously and deodorant not seriously enough.

everything glows with new importance