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.
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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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 watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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 want to be violated by insight.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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