I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
AIMEE BENDERI didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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and 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.
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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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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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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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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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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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