The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
AIMEE BENDERLight 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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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 want to be violated by insight.
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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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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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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 am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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