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.
AIMEE BENDERListen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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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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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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