I want to be violated by insight.
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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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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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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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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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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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