Aimee Bender Quotes

• 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.

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  Moments, Rescue, Surprising

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• As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

  Aimee Bender

  Dream, Writing, Awake

  FaceBook post by Aimee Bender from May 25, 2014

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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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• Eres la chica perfecta', dijo frotándose la barbilla. No esperas nada.

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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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• 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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• 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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  Wise, Wine, Eye

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

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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.

  Aimee Bender

  Light, Self, Hands

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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.

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  Strong, Kids, Later In Life

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.117, Random House

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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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  Burgers, Littles, Handmade

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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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• You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

  Aimee Bender

  Focus, Ruins, Ifs

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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 seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

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  Spring, Revealing, Happens

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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.

  Aimee Bender

  Lucha, Escritura, Carácter

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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.

  Aimee Bender

  Thinking, Unbearable, Said

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.28, Anchor

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

  Aimee Bender

  Doritos, Great Gifts, Asks

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• To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

  Aimee Bender

  Gratitude, Someone You Love, Barometer

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