We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
AIMEE BENDERMany 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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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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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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’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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