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.
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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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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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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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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