Aimee Bender Short Quotes

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

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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

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

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

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

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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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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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I didn't mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

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

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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 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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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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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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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

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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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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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