The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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 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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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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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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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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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