There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
AIMEE BENDERThere’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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