But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
AIMEE BENDERI was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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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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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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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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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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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.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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 want to be violated by insight.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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