The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
AIMEE BENDERI’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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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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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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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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