When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
AIMEE BENDERIt’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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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 seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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