Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
AIMEE BENDERI’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I want to be violated by insight.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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