Aimee Bender Quotes

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• I want to be violated by insight.

  Aimee Bender

  Want, Insight

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.15, Anchor

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• We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

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  Smart, Heart, Brain

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor

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

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  Moments, Rescue, Surprising

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• As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

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  Dream, Writing, Awake

  FaceBook post by Aimee Bender from May 25, 2014

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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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  Light, Yellow, Comfort

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.122, Random House

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

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  Girl, Perfect, Expect Nothing

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.157, Random House

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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.

  Aimee Bender

  Writing, Pages, Best Work

  Interview with Ryan Boudinot, www.pifmagazine.com. November, 1998.

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• and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

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  Wise, Wine, Eye

  Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

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

  Aimee Bender

  Circles, Tails, Edges

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.158, Random House

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• I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

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  Two, Space, Stride

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.205, Random House

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• It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

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  Life, Sadness, Loss

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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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  Caves, Want, Eyelids

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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, Self, Hands

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• 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 all so strong and early.

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  Strong, Kids, Later In Life

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.117, Random House

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• 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 why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

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  Burgers, Littles, Handmade

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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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  Rope, Band, Stories

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• You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

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  Focus, Ruins, Ifs

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

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  Kissing, Years, Rolling

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

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  Spring, Revealing, Happens

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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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  Struggle, Writing, Character

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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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  Thinking, Unbearable, Said

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.28, Anchor

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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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  Tears, Groups, Away From Each Other

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

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  Mom, Magazines, Pages

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.51, Random House

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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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  Doritos, Great Gifts, Asks

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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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  Taken, Paper, Fists

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.259, Random House

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