Aimee Bender Quotes, Spring Quotes, Revealing Quotes

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

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

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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

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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.

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

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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

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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 could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

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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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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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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 could because my clothes would be staying on.

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

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

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

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