I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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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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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 peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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