Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
AIMEE BENDERI watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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’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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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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