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 BENDERLight 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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 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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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