You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
AIMEE BENDERGlen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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 so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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