Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
AIMEE BENDERIt is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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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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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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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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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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