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.
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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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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