I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
AIMEE BENDERYou try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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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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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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