Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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