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.
AIMEE BENDERWhile she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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 seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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