Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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 give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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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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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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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