My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
AIMEE BENDERI was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I want to be violated by insight.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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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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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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