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Aimee Bender Quotes

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot Picture Quote #1

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped Picture Quote #1

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. 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 Picture Quote #1

While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side Picture Quote #1

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude Picture Quote #1

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope Picture Quote #1

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist Picture Quote #1

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things Picture Quote #1

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot (Aimee Bender Quotes) Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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. 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes) While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes) I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side (Aimee Bender Quotes) To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude (Aimee Bender Quotes) I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes) We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes) Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes) I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope (Aimee Bender Quotes) My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes) I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist (Aimee Bender Quotes) Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes) It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things (Aimee Bender Quotes) Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language (Aimee Bender Quotes) 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 (Aimee Bender Quotes)

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