Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
AIMEE BENDERAs soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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