This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
AIMEE BENDERThe 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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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 is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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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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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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