I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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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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