My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
AIMEE BENDERAnd the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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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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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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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 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 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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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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