There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
AIMEE BENDERMy lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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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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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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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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