This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
AIMEE BENDERI knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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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 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.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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