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Aimee Bender Inspirational Quotes (52)

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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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I admired that stride it was like he folded space in two with it.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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 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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I am the drying meadow you the unspoken apology he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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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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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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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing it's rejuvenating.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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