Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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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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