It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
AIMEE BENDERA Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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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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