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YOU'RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH. — Aimee Bender

You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing. — Aimee Bender

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think. — Aimee Bender

Mom's smiles were so full of feeling that people leaned back a little when she greeted them. It was hard to know just how much was being offered. — Aimee Bender

I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles. — Aimee Bender

It was ridiculous, at times, how many tears one body could produce. — Aimee Bender

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. — Aimee Bender

I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic. — Aimee Bender

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating. — Aimee Bender

I didn't mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side. — Aimee Bender

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

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped. — Aimee Bender

Don't smile," he said. — Aimee Bender

There was love to be felt, and discovered, still. — Aimee Bender

She is walking around the living room naked and — Aimee Bender

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments. — Aimee Bender

It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers. — Aimee Bender

It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened. — Aimee Bender

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings. — Aimee Bender

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground. — Aimee Bender

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. — Aimee Bender

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

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing. — Aimee Bender

He had a good face to him, something chunky in his nose that I could get behind. — Aimee Bender

But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why. — Aimee Bender

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy. — Aimee Bender

The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom. — Aimee Bender

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. — Aimee Bender

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time. — Aimee Bender

Pain was no longer a mystery to him, and a man familiar with pain has entered a new kind of freedom. — Aimee Bender

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it. — Aimee Bender

I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey. — Aimee Bender

She could feel it brimming on her lips, that superstar smile, the bow shape, the teeth long and solid tombstones. — Aimee Bender

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point. — Aimee Bender

I want to be violated by insight. — Aimee Bender

An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers. — Aimee Bender

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me. — Aimee Bender

Rose,sensing her mother's distress ... She did not face me, but I could feel the vibration of tears, a kind of pain hive,rustling inside her. — Aimee Bender

Being there was like having a good cry, the clearing of the air after weight has been held. — Aimee Bender

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution. — Aimee Bender

I felt her come by later, as I was dozing off. Her standing, by my bed. The depth of shadow of a person felt behind closed eyelids. — Aimee Bender

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write. — Aimee Bender

Her blush was the color of a coral reef, but smooth. — Aimee Bender

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time. — Aimee Bender

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

You can ruin anything if you focus at it. — Aimee Bender

We end up kissing her for an hour, and her lips are so soft they are almost like a joke. — Aimee Bender

I will never die, thought the cake to itself, in even simpler terms, as cakes did not have sophisticated use of language. — Aimee Bender

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. — Aimee Bender

It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things. — Aimee Bender

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope. — Aimee Bender

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon. — Aimee Bender

Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical. — Aimee Bender

Your eyes shine," he said. "How do they do that?"
"Blood," she said. — Aimee Bender

I loved my brother, but relying on him was like closing a hand around air. — Aimee Bender

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. — Aimee Bender

I give boring people something to discuss over corn. — Aimee Bender

But she was not there, in it. It so — Aimee Bender

As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault. — Aimee Bender

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude. — Aimee Bender

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

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q ... — Aimee Bender

Dad lost his job. Then he got a new job. Then he got his old job back and went back to it. They were all in the same building. — Aimee Bender

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot. — Aimee Bender

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot. — Aimee Bender

Last day I saw him human, he was sad about the world. — Aimee Bender

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me. — Aimee Bender

I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism. — Aimee Bender

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake. — Aimee Bender

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious. — Aimee Bender

This woman he met was the woman he met and however you try, you cannot unmeet. — Aimee Bender

[ ... ]when he closed his eyes, the torrent of longing waiting inside was so thick he thought he might drown in it. — Aimee Bender

The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal. — Aimee Bender

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. — Aimee Bender

One could not spend one's life in the imaginings of another life. — Aimee Bender

But truthfully? Let me tell you what I honestly think.
I think, maybe he hasn't even noticed that I'm gone.
But. I have. — Aimee Bender

We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all. — Aimee Bender

I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something. — Aimee Bender

I am going to host Thanksgiving myself and instead of a turkey I'm serving a big human butt. — Aimee Bender

We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you. — Aimee Bender

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist. — Aimee Bender

Walk soft, like whispers. — Aimee Bender

But the rest of the evening is nothing but the trembling edges of something I am so tired of feeling and I do not want to feel anymore. — Aimee Bender

A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there. — Aimee Bender

It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples. — Aimee Bender

I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal. — Aimee Bender