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.
AIMEE BENDERIt seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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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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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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