The Color Master: Stories
Aimee Bender
Top 10 Best Quotes
“That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.”
“It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.”
“The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones. They are kin. The phone, like the cigarette, let's the texter/former smoker drop out of any social interaction for a second to get a break and make a little love to the beautiful object. We need something, people. We can't live propless.”
“It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.”
“But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.”
“And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because that is what we do when someone dies too early, too beautiful, too undervalued by the world, or sometimes just at all -- we shake our fists at the big, beautiful, indifferent sky, and the anger is righteous and strong and helpless and huge. I shook and I shook, and I put all of it into the dress.”
“but the rest of the evening is nothing but the trembling edges of something I am so tired of feeling and I do not want to feel anymore.”
“There was love to be felt, and discovered, still.”
“The people were all busy in their cars, listening to the radio, so there was no one to smile at, so I just sent my love to the traffic lights. No one ever appreciates them, all day long, working so hard to turn red and yellow and green, right in time with us to make sure we don't crash into each other. If there was any tiny chance, even the tiniest chance, that they happened to be alive, I bet I was the first person ever to tell them they were special. You are special, I said out loud in my car, but in case they couldn't hear, I cracked my window open. "You are special," I said, to the night air. And just like that, a green light.”
“I will never die, thought the cake to itself, in even simpler terms, as cakes did not have sophisticated use of language.”
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