I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
AIMEE BENDERBut what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I want to be violated by insight.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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