To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
AIMEE BENDER
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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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