You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
AIMEE BENDERThat at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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 give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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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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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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