I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
AIMEE BENDERI have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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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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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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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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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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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As 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.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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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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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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