It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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 felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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