I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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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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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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 felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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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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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 was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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