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.
AIMEE BENDERWhen 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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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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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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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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