I want to be violated by insight.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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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.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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