I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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