While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
AIMEE BENDERI knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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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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