Aimee Bender Quotes

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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.
• …kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
• To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
• That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is…
• ...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
• I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
• We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
• I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
• Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
• That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was…
• 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…
• I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
• I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

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