Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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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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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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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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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