I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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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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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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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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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