Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
AIMEE BENDERIt seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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