I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
AIMEE BENDERIt 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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 was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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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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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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