And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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 give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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