Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
AIMEE BENDERI give boring people something to discuss over corn.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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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 am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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