I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
AIMEE BENDERWe hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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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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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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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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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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