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.
AIMEE BENDERIt is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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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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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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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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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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