Aimee Bender Quotes

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• As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
• It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
• 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…
• It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we…
• I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
• But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
• I want to be violated by insight.
• The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
• 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…
• I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
• My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
• 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…
• You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
• 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…
• 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…

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