I want to be violated by insight.
AIMEE BENDERYou’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing 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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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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