I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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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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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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If 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.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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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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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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