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 BENDERMy lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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 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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