Aimee Bender Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Clothes, Dating, Skins

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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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  Mom, Daughter, Brother

  FaceBook post by Aimee Bender from May 09, 2015

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• I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

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  Meals, Bottles, Messages

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• There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.

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  Thinking, Important, Lap

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.34, Anchor

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

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  Space, Lines, Dots

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.28, Random House

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