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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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 is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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 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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