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.

  Aimee Bender

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Aimee Bender

  Wise, Wine, Eye

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

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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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• 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.

  Aimee Bender

  Strong, Kids, Later In Life

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.117, 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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• …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 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 genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

  Aimee Bender

  Rope, Band, Stories

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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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• 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.

  Aimee Bender

  Mom, Magazines, Pages

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

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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.

  Aimee Bender

  Dark, Hands, Rooms

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.67, Random House

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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.

  Aimee Bender

  Writing, Feelings, Lovely

  "Why the best way to get creative is to make some rules" by Aimee Bender, www.cnn.com. July 31, 2012.

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

  Aimee Bender

  Spring, Revealing, Happens

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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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• 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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• You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

  Aimee Bender

  Focus, Ruins, Ifs

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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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• 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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  Moving, Cutting, Simple

  Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.90, Anchor

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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.

  Aimee Bender

  Birthday, Cake, Childhood

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