"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."

-- Aimee Bender

#Mother Quotes #Air Quotes #Details Quotes

“No matter what youâ€™ve been through, no matter what others might have thought about you...you are who God says you are. You are talented, you are a success, and you are an overcomer!”
“Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.”
“Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.”
“Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.”
“I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.”
“I read the first book about five times while I was preparing for the role. I really wanted to completely embody Lissa and, naturally the book gave me much deeper psychological and emotional insight into Lissa than the script.”
“I'm searching for a real love.”
“The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.”

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