Aimee Bender quotes

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day. (Aimee Bender)
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating. View quote
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I want to be violated by insight. View quote
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments. View quote
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. View quote
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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. View quote
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things. View quote
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...kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there. (Aimee Bender)
To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude. View quote
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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. View quote
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn. View quote
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution. View quote
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom. View quote
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street. (Aimee Bender)
I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant. View quote
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand. View quote
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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. View quote
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I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding out good information on a character, I will stop when I'm set to stop. View quote
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