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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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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