It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDER
It 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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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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 watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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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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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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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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