The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
AIMEE BENDERI 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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 try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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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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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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