The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
AIMEE BENDERMom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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