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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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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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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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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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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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