The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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 am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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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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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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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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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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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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