I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
AIMEE BENDERA Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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 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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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