But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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