Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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