You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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