With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
AIMEE BENDERTo see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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.
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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 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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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