I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
AIMEE BENDERI 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.
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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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 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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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