I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
AIMEE BENDERIt seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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