Aimee Bender Quotes, Birthday Quotes, Cake Quotes

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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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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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

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

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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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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

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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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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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I want to be violated by insight.

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

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

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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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