If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
AIMEE BENDERAs soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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