You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
AIMEE BENDERThe writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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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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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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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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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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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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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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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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