Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
AIMEE BENDER
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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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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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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