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.
AIMEE BENDERIt seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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 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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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