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.
AIMEE BENDERIt seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
AIMEE BENDERKissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
AIMEE BENDERA Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
AIMEE BENDERTo see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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.
AIMEE BENDERWe’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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
AIMEE BENDERThere’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
AIMEE BENDERWhen language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
AIMEE BENDERI knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
AIMEE BENDERI am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
AIMEE BENDERYou can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
AIMEE BENDERBut the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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.
AIMEE BENDERLight 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.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
AIMEE BENDERBut I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
AIMEE BENDERSometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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