You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
AIMEE BENDERThat’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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