Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
AIMEE BENDERYou’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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