It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDERI have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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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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 want to be violated by insight.
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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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