Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
AIMEE BENDERPouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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Many 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.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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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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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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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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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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