You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
AIMEE BENDERKissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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 was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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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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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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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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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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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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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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