Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
AIMEE BENDERand 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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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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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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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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