We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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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 am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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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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