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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/there-s-a-gift-in-your-lap-and-it-s-beautifully-wrapped-and-it-s-not/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

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## More by Aimee Bender

> [“Does it work with sandwiches? he asked. I didn't move. He handed it over. George was watching with a kind of neutral curiosity, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/does-it-work-with-sandwiches-he-asked-i-didn-t-move-he-handed-it-over/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/there-s-a-spectrum-of-those-moments-of-connection-and-the-moments-we/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/i-did-plays-in-college-and-i-have-half-of-a-play-but-i-m-kind-of/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/my-genes-my-love-are-rubber-bands-and-rope-make-yourself-a-structure/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on that for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/one-thing-i-don-t-want-to-feel-is-marketplace-pressure-so-i-m-really/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/language-is-the-ticket-to-plot-and-character-after-all-because-both/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [I give boring people something to discuss over corn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/i-give-boring-people-something-to-discuss-over-corn/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [“The sensor did not seem to be restricted to my mother's food, and there was so much to sort through, a torrent of information,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/the-sensor-did-not-seem-to-be-restricted-to-my-mother-s-food-and/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/i-peeled-the-skin-off-a-grape-in-slippery-little-triangles-and-i/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/it-was-like-we-were-exchanging-codes-on-how-to-be-a-father-and-a/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [“I started in our neighborhood, buying a pastrami burrito at Oki Dog and a deluxe gardenburger at Astro Burger and matzoh-ball soup at Greenblatt's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/i-started-in-our-neighborhood-buying-a-pastrami-burrito-at-oki-dog/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [“I loved my dish towel. This one was two-toned, and had, on one side, stitchings of fat purple roses on a lavender background, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/i-loved-my-dish-towel-this-one-was-two-toned-and-had-on-one-side/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> […kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/kissing-george-was-a-little-like-rolling-in-caramel-after-spending/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [“And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/and-in-it-all-the-sensation-of-shaking-my-fists-at-the-sky-shaking-my/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

> [“He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother who had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aimee-bender/he-made-a-good-salary-but-he-did-not-flaunt-it-he-d-been-raised-in/)

[Aimee Bender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aimee-bender/)

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