It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDERA Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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