“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.”

—  Aimee Bender

Source: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

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Novelist, short story writer 1969

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