Aimee Bender Quotes

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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.

Aimee Bender

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.

Aimee Bender

Moments, Rescue, Surprising

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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

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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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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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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

Aimee Bender

Girl, Perfect, Expect Nothing

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.157, Random House

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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.

Aimee Bender

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...

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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.

Aimee Bender

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.

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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.

Aimee Bender

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)

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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.

Aimee Bender

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

Struggle, Writing, Character

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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.

Aimee Bender

Tears, Groups, Away From Each Other

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

Aimee Bender

Sky, Interesting

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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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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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Born: June 28, 1969
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