I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
AIMEE BENDERIt’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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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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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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