You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
AIMEE BENDERIt was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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 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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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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