And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
AIMEE BENDERI am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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 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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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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