There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
AIMEE BENDERIt seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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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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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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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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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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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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