Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
AIMEE BENDERI 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.
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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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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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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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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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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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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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 was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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