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.
AIMEE BENDERKissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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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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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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