Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
AIMEE BENDERNot getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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