It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
AIMEE BENDERI’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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 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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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