It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
AIMEE BENDERI give boring people something to discuss over corn.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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