I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
AIMEE BENDERI didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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Listen. 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.
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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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