That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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Light 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.
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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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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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