It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDER
There’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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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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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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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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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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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