Aimee Bender Quotes, Writing Quotes, Feelings Quotes

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

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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

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I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

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I want to be violated by insight.

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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.

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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

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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 was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?

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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

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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 also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.

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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

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

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