When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
AIMEE BENDER
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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 want to be violated by insight.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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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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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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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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