A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
AIMEE BENDERAnd the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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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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