Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
AIMEE BENDERWhen language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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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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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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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.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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