There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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