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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and 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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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 was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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