Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
AIMEE BENDERI admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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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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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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