It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I 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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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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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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 knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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