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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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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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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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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