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.
AIMEE BENDERMy eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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 what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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