I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
AIMEE BENDERMy lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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