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.
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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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 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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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