Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
AIMEE BENDER
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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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