I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
AIMEE BENDERI give boring people something to discuss over corn.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I want to be violated by insight.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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.
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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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