You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
AIMEE BENDERBut the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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