I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
AIMEE BENDERBut 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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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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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’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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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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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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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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