Hard Damage Quotes

“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

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

“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