It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDERTo see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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 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 don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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