Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
AIMEE BENDERThat she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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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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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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