Aimee Bender Quotes, Circles Quotes, Tails Quotes

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

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

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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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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

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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 to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

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

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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

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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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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 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 of childhood and a happy day.

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

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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

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

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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

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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 was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.

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

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