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

  Aimee Bender

  Taken, Paper, Fists

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.259, 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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• Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

  Aimee Bender

  Character, Tickets, Plot

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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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  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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• When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

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  Feel Good, Body, Language

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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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  Dark, Hands, Rooms

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

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

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  Writing, Thinking, Mysterious

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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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  Believe, Passion, Thinking

  Aimee Bender (2012). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt”, p.181, Random House

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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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  Mother, Children, Thinking

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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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• 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'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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  Writing, People, Kind

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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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  Life, Mother, Baby

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• Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.

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  Sadness, Skills, Brain

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

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  Nuts, Trying, Seems

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.95, Random House

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• Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.

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  Running, Blow, Sky

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

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  Wine, Glasses, Red

  Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.28, Anchor

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• My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

  Aimee Bender

  Lovers, Evolution, Reverse

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.10, Anchor

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• I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

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  People, Giving, Corn

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.16, Anchor

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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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  Ideas, Mind, Trying

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.253, Random House

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• 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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  Mother, Air, Details

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• But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

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  Fire, Rooms, Cold

  "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake". Book by Aimee Bender, 2011.

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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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  Hands, World, Streets

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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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  Daughter, Father, Language

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

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  Echoes, Participants

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