You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
AIMEE BENDERBut what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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 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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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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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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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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