Aimee Bender Quotes, Mother Quotes, Air Quotes

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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

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

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

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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.

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

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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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I want to be violated by insight.

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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.

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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.

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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

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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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...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

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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.

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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

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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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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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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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