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.
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 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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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