I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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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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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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