Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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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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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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