There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
AIMEE BENDERI don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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 lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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