You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
AIMEE BENDERWe’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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