Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
AIMEE BENDERI peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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