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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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