To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
AIMEE BENDERLight 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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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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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.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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 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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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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