A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
AIMEE BENDERIf 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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