I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
AIMEE BENDERI am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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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 am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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