It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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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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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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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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