As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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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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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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