It 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.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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