I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
AIMEE BENDERTo see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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 is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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