There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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