To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
AIMEE BENDERWhile she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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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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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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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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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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