I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
AIMEE BENDERThere’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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