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.
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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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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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