I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
AIMEE BENDERI was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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 is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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