I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
AIMEE BENDERThat she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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 am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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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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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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