Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
AIMEE BENDERBut the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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 give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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