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.
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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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 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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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