Aimee Bender Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.”
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“It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.”
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“Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.”
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“As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.”
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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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“Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.”
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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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“I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.”
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“When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.”
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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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“Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, 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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“It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.”
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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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“When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.”
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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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“Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.”
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“I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.”
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“There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. 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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“I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.”
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“I give boring people something to discuss over corn.”
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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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“You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.”
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“But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?”
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“The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.”
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“My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.”
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“I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; 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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“Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.”
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“...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.”
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