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.
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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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