The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
AIMEE BENDERBut 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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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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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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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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