Aimee Bender citations (25 citations)

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Aimee Bender: Citations en anglais

“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”

Source: Willful Creatures

“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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Aimee Bender

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“I want to be violated by insight.”

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Aimee Bender

Source: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

“I give boring people something to discuss over corn.”

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Source: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

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

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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“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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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.”

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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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

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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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

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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“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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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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

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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“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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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.”

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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.”

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Source: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

“Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia”

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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.”

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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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

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Aimee Bender

Source: The Color Master: Stories

“It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.”

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Aimee Bender

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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

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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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

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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.”

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

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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.”

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Source: The Color Master: Stories

“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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Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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