I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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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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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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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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