The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
AIMEE BENDERIt is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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