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.
AIMEE BENDERI felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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