You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
AIMEE BENDERPouring 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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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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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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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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