I want to be violated by insight.
AIMEE BENDERI am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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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’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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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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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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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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