When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
AIMEE BENDERand I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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As 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.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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 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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