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.
AIMEE BENDERThis is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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