It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
AIMEE BENDERBut the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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 was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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