But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
AIMEE BENDERIt was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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 am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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