I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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 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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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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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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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