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.
AIMEE BENDERI give boring people something to discuss over corn.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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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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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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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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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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