I want to be violated by insight.
AIMEE BENDERYou try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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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.
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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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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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