Quotes by Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender

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

Kissing

Rolling

Years

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.

Eye

Wine

Wise

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Brain

Sadness

Skills

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.

Away From Each Other

Groups

Tears

I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Said

Thinking

Unbearable

I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

Corn

Giving

People

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.

Bottles

Meals

Messages

I want to be violated by insight.

Insight

Want

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

Circles

Edges

Tails

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

Echoes

Participants

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Away From Each Other

Band

Barometer

Blow

Body

Bottles

Brain

Brother

Burgers

Caves

Character

Circles

Comfort

Corn

Cutting

Dark

Daughter

Echoes

Edges

Evolution

Expect Nothing

Eye

Eyelids

Feel Good

Focus

Girl

Giving

Gratitude

Groups

Handmade

Hands

Happens

Heart

Ifs

Important

Insight

Kissing

Language

Lap

Light

Littles

Lovers

Magazines

Meals

Messages

Mom

Moments

Moving

Mysterious

Pages

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Quotes by Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender

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

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.

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.

I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

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.

I want to be violated by insight.

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

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

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