I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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