“Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.” KindLightFoundRoomsCompanyComfortYellowLampsLiving RoomRadiantBulbsGood CompanyBabysitter Book:The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.” LittlesLastsMotherFoundAirDetailsTinyIntimateDesperateRitualPalmsGrossConcentratingFingertipsRemnants Author:Aimee Bender
“While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.” MovingFoundSimpleCuttingCapacityGravesCriedSaddestMushroomsSimple Truths Book:Willful Creatures Source: Willful Creatures
