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.
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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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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