It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDER
There’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 so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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 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 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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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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