To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
AIMEE BENDERThat at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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 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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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