I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
AIMEE BENDERIt was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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.
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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 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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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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