I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
AIMEE BENDERKissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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