Aimee Bender Quotes, Nuts Quotes, Trying Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

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

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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

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