The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.”
“We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.”
“Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.”
“I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.”
“Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.”
“I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.”
“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.”
“To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.”
“…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.”
“My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.”
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Book Keywords:
human, siblings, light, love, parents, aloneness, mother
