That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
AIMEE BENDERI’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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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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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 felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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