The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
AIMEE BENDERBefore she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 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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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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