There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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 knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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