I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
AIMEE BENDERAnd the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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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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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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