As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
AIMEE BENDERLarge meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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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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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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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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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