Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
AIMEE BENDERIf everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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