{"author":"Aimee Bender","author_id":"Aimee+Bender","total_quotes":58,"quotes":[{"text":"Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["kiss"],"id":2800,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"},{"text":"Sherrie would be there, and the last time I’d seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw me and ran out of the room. You’re upset, I’d yelled after her, meanly.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["food","magic-power","snark","upset"],"id":27852,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"},{"text":"I bit into the chocolate chip. Slowed myself down.By then, almost a week in, I could sort through the assault of layers a little more quickly. The chocolate chips were from a factory, so they had that same slight metallic, absent taste to them, and the butter had been pulled from cows in pens, so the richness was not as full. The eggs were tinged with a hint of far away and plastic. All of those parts hummed in the distance, and then the baker, who'd mixed the batter and formed the dough, was angry. A tight anger, in the cookie itself.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["anger","chocolate-chip-cookie","factory-farming","food-sensor","ingredients","layers"],"id":32990,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"},{"text":"I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["communication","language"],"id":45023,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"},{"text":"We end up kissing her for an hour, and her lips are so soft they are almost like a joke.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["joke","kiss","kissing"],"id":46846,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"},{"text":"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.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["heart","meaningful"],"id":50154,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"},{"text":"It's tempting to think of red for sun,' she said, 'but it has to be just a dash, not much. More of a dark orange and a hint of brown. And then white on yellow on white. Not bright white,' she said. 'The kind of white that makes you squint, but in a softer way...''Go look at fire for a while. Go spend some time with fire.'Looking at fire was interesting, I have to admit. I sat with a candle for a couple hours. It has these stages of color: the white, the yellow, the red, the tiny spot of blue I'd heard mentioned but never noticed.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["color","fire","perception","seeing","sun"],"id":70257,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"},{"text":"We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["attraction","funny","humor","love"],"id":74514,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"},{"text":"I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["divine","fruit"],"id":77008,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"},{"text":"And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because that is what we do when someone dies too early, too beautiful, too undervalued by the world, or sometimes just at all -- we shake our fists at the big, beautiful, indifferent sky, and the anger is righteous and strong and helpless and huge. I shook and I shook, and I put all of it into the dress.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["anger","death","grief"],"id":92346,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}