That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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Pouring 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.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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