When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
AIMEE BENDERMom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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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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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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