I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
AIMEE BENDERAs a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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