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.
AIMEE BENDERYou 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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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