This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
AIMEE BENDERIt is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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