Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
AIMEE BENDERI could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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