The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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 was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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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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