You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
AIMEE BENDERIt seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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