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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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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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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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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