I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
AIMEE BENDERI’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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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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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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