Lagedor

“My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“I loved my brother, but relying on him was like closing a hand around air.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“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.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake