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I want to be violated by insight.

Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Violated
Insight

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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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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.
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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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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen. — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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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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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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 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.
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